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 |
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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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