Analysis of Twilight Repose

Russell Anderson 1962 (San Bernardino)



lilac aroma
on the back deck at twilight
a dog lies sleeping


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 1010 101111 01110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 60
Words 12
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 49
Words per stanza (avg) 12

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Written on September 10, 2022

Submitted by rnadc on September 10, 2022

Modified by rnadc on September 19, 2022

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Russell Anderson

Russell Anderson-raised in a small, remote, California town. He is now living out his later years in small-town Oregon. Still gets "Verklempt" by a good, sad song, poem, or testimonial. more…

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