Analysis of Clouds



In the azure sky,
mellow winds keep sailing by,
pushing chunks of misty air,
dogs, cats and even short hats.

But the one that I choose,
is the one that I lose.
A short stubby pencil,
and when I closed my eyes,
the one that I saw went sailing by.

Advaith M Menon


Scheme AAXX BBXXA X
Poetic Form Etheree  (40%)
Metre 00101 1011101 1011101 1101011 101111 101111 011010 011111 011111101 1101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 266
Words 64
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 5, 1
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 66
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Written on November 02, 2022

Submitted by nisha.madhusekhar on February 11, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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