Analysis of To my Father
I farm handful berries some have no might to sow;
when furrows with blunt blades the soil they hoe,
as you I graft like an ant,
dry tops of the plants
on my fuzz & pastry dough.
Scheme | ABCDB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Cinquain (20%) Lanturne (20%) |
Metre | 11110111111 111110111 1111111 11101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 181 |
Words | 44 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 5 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Written on December 14, 2021
Submitted by robertrad2021 on December 14, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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