Analysis of The Skaters
John Gould Fletcher 1886 (Little Rock) – 1950
Black swallows swooping or gliding
In a flurry of entangled loops and curves;
The skaters skim over the frozen river.
And the grinding click of their skates as they impinge upon the surface,
Is like the brushing together of thin wing-tips of silver.
| Scheme | ABCDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010110 00101010101 01011001010 00101111110101010 110100101111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 245 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 202 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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