Analysis of ghostly



yesterday
hanging in the sky...so pale i could almost see through it...a cold sun
no heat radiated earthward...
nothing stirred abroad only me..
is this how it will be ...at the end..


Scheme ABACD
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Cinquain  (40%)
Metre 10 100011111111011 111001 10101101 111111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 179
Words 34
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 136
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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