Analysis of poem #4
David Plantinga 1972 (Sherbrooke)
Dour duty may seem cruel
To novices, but rasped
To callouses by some hair shirt,
Skin glories in its clasp.
A rougher kiss is sweetest bliss
To scourged and toughened hides,
Until abraded to a scar
Where stunted dullness bides.
| Scheme | XXXX AXXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101110 110011 111111 110011 01011101 110101 011101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 225 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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