Analysis of Aliens
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
The chatter of little people
Breaks on my purpose
Like the water-drops which slowly wear the rocks to powder.
And while I laugh
My spirit crumbles at their teasing touch.
Scheme | ABCDE |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Cinquain (20%) Lanturne (20%) |
Metre | 01011010 11110 10101110101110 0111 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 178 |
Words | 32 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 5 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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