Analysis of Prickled
The sky was prickled with white spots
And a hugh chalk dot
The lines the other birds made weren't audible
The trees had died even more than the grey curtain
I kissed him in my mind earlier that day
Noone else like him has really compared
Then I slept looking at the stars
| Scheme | ABCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111111 00111 010101110100 011110110110 11101110011 111111001 11110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 271 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 218 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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