Analysis of Shedding Scales
Then
And now
And some time ago
The Far East dragons
Shed their scales in anger,
And threw them in the willow trees
That decorate their china
Where they sit as deep blue rocks
Or vines that path among the trees
Entangling Schechuan beans
In fiery flavor mysteries
Today I try to vines untangle
Treading lightly in as I do
Avoiding dragon scales and
The anger of the overwrought
Asian dragons overweight!
Shedding scales
Scheme | ABCDEFGHFIFJKLMNO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 01 01101 01110 111010 0110011 110110 1111111 11110101 01011 010010100 011111010 10100111 0101010 0101001 101001 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 402 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 343 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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