Analysis of Lost in Thought (trois-par-Huit)
Trois par Huit A style of poetry in which a poem consisting of 8 lines follows a syllable count of 3,6,9,12,12,9,6,3. The title must be last line of the poem and also incorporate the theme or subject of it as well. The lines follow a 3,2,3 pattern
Cold Spring day
the sky is silver gray...
And the wind is picking up today
I struggle to keep melancholy thoughts at bay
Yet find it impossible to push them away
The lonely sigh of the wind has brought
This sad mood I have caught...
Lost in thought
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011100010100101110010011010111110100100100110111110110010 111 011101 001110101 11011100111 111010011101 010110111 111111 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 488 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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