Analysis of The White Cross.
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
The insects were shining in the sun.
Tiny hands prodded until aloof.
Their colours psychedelic as their wings signalled like cloth.
But the one that stood out most was the white crossed moth.
That sprung around the garden,
then escaped our test tube hands.
Knowing it wasn't meant to live by demands.
| Scheme | ABCCADD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010001 101100101 110101111011 101111110111 1101010 10110111 10110111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 294 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 241 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Written on September 09, 2021
Submitted by heathert.34240 on October 04, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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