Analysis of In A Sudden
On a sudden,
the sight,
Your look of light,
stills all,
The curd-pot
falls to the ground.
Parents and
brothers
all call a halt.
Prise out, they say,
this thing from your heart.
You've lost your path.
Says Meera:
Who but you
can see in the dark
of a heart?
| Scheme | XAAX XX XXX XBX XXXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010 01 1111 11 011 1101 100 10 1101 1111 11111 1111 11 111 11001 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 254 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 3, 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 13, 2023
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