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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