Analysis of Oak Tree



Angelic Oak by the roadside
shelters strangers on a Journey
a farmer cuts an Oak
for firewood for his family


Scheme ABCB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Simple 4-line
Metre 101101 10101010 010111 11011100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 105
Words 20
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 89
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on April 05, 2023

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