Analysis of Petals
Roberto Suárez Torres 1983 (New York)
Petals dancing in the breeze
above a clear lake
are naught but ripples.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 1010001 01011 11110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 72 |
| Words | 13 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 58 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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