Analysis of A Duck
Roberto Suárez Torres 1983 (New York)
I once saw in a pond a duck,
drinking at the lone shore a buck,
many leaves falling to the ground,
yet summer always could be found
with white light the thick ice skies struck.
| Scheme | AABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Limerick |
| Metre | 11100101 10101101 10110101 1101111 11101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 176 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Written on April 27, 2024
Submitted by robertrad2021 on April 27, 2024
Modified by robertrad2021 on April 28, 2024
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