Analysis of Suitors
A spinster from Flint once opined
In her day the suitors were kind.
Though sister was gone,
They didn’t stay long.
An overfull parlor can grind.
| Scheme | AABCA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) Cinquain (20%) Lanturne (20%) |
| Metre | 01011101 00101001 11011 1111 111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 154 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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