Analysis of Easter
Joyce Kilmer 1886 (New Brunswick) – 1918 (Seringes-et-Nesles)
The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 0111010 1111 01011101 01 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 101 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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