Analysis of Cardinal
Cardinal in the lush green tree;
It quickly flies away.
A home some place, then quickly gone;
Are we not the same as they?
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Ballad stanza Quatrain Simple 4-line |
| Metre | 10000111 110101 01111101 1110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 119 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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