Analysis of Let's learn from the owl owls are wise If I were an owl I could not tell you that

Ben Pack 1985 (Ohio)



Let's learn from the owl
owls are wise
If I were an owl I could not tell you that
but I can
owls show us wisdom
or i could be wrong
and it is just
owls are wise.


Scheme aBcdefgB
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 111 11011111111 111 11110 11111 0111 111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 161
Words 38
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 122
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Written on April 18, 2024

Submitted by benjaminp.86393 on April 18, 2024

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