Analysis of Days
Janet Lewis 1899 (Chicago) – 1998 (Los Altos)
Swift and subtle
The flying shuttle
Crosses the web
And fills the loom,
Leaving for range
Of choice or change
No time, no room.
| Scheme | AABCDDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010 01010 1001 0101 1011 1111 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 129 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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