Analysis of One more time



Holding her hand in the summer rain
I begin, and dance again.
Far from me are the truths beneath
I stop. Turn, in a breath release.
To this day I do not know yet
catching the breaths of gods
in a butterfly net


Scheme ABCDEFE
Poetic Form
Metre 100100101 1010101 11110101 11100101 11111111 100111 00101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 209
Words 45
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 162
Words per stanza (avg) 43
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Written on June 11, 2023

Submitted by robertc.65847 on June 11, 2023

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