Analysis of Sweet Secret
Deep in a pinetree forest
the dark Tomoka flows
There in a tiny clearing
the huckleberry grows
And the sweetness of the berry
in woods so wild and free
is a secret held in sacred trust
by birds and bears and me
| Scheme | ABCBDDAD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100110 0111 1001010 01001 00101010 011101 101010101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 203 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on April 07, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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