Analysis of Untitled Haiku #1
Twilight paints the sky.
Beyond sunset, I awake
--the watcher's reward.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Haiku Tercet |
| Metre | 1101 011101 0101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 71 |
| Words | 12 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
About this poem
This poem was among about 20 or 30 or so haikus I was writing in the 2000s. It was chosen as the best out of them all in a class during that time period. It was first published in The Secret Life of Poets poetry magazine in 2017.
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Written on 2003
Submitted by zero_of_nine on September 10, 2022
Modified on April 10, 2023
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