Analysis of Shroud



Snowflakes Shimmer
Almost Dawn
Crystal Flake
Too Winter Born
As I sit and
Watch this Scene
The City Street
Seems almost clean
I feel like
A Little Child
Big Brown Stars
Flowing Wild
In awe of such
A Frozen Sight
Glistening in
Dawn's Early Light


Scheme ABCDEFGFHIJIKLML
Poetic Form
Metre 110 11 101 1101 1110 111 0101 111 111 0101 111 101 0111 0101 1000 1101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 229
Words 45
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 199
Words per stanza (avg) 45
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Submitted on August 17, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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