Analysis of The Sun [Haiku]



There it is, rising
 Kissing the high horizon
 To gift us with light


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 11110 1001010 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 66
Words 13
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 53
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted by matiasp.29602 on July 17, 2015

Modified on April 26, 2023

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