Analysis of A Tree Tilts Crooked In The Wind
a tree tilts crooked in the wind
and a robin chirps cheerfully bliss.
how many have come before I
to sit and wonder this?
a universe immensely grand
in luminous intricacy
yet nothing simpler in beauty
as a robin on a tilted tree.
| Scheme | XAXA XBBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 01110001 001011001 11011011 110101 0100101 01001000 110100010 101010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 222 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on September 12, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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