Analysis of Crawling

Rick Wojtala

Free verse
You start out small,
then grow tall.
And if you play it smart
you’ll have a ball.
If not, you’ll be in misery;
seriously.

Scheme AABACC
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 111 011111 1101 11110100 1000
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 126
Words 28
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 90
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Written on August 12, 2022

Submitted on August 12, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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