Analysis of We Get Home With Our Wings



a strange thing
only
the
poet knows
when
the
songbird
opens
their
wings
their
voices shall sing
and
we
break bread
when
we
get home
with
our wings


Scheme abCdECfgHiHajBkEBlmi
Poetic Form Tetractys  (70%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 011 10 0 101 1 0 1 10 1 1 1 1011 0 1 11 1 1 11 1 101
Characters 132
Words 28
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 6
Words per line (avg) 1
Letters per stanza (avg) 119
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Written on October 09, 2021

Submitted by ggolden9 on October 09, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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