Analysis of Posterity (A Haiku)



Though I cant forget
how young love plays with your eyes,
always remind me.


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 11101 1111111 1011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 73
Words 14
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 60
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted on September 28, 2013

Modified on April 10, 2023

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