Analysis of The perfect spring.
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
I canoed the valleys leading to a pool
And it was so perfect, beautiful a hole
In the landscape
Like before a rowed bowl of jelly
Perfectly smooth circle of blue.
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Tanka (40%) Cinquain (20%) Lanturne (20%) |
| Metre | 10101010101 01110110001 001 101011110 10011011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 163 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Written on June 15, 2022
Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on June 15, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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