Analysis of Faeries (tanka)
Beneath willow tree
at dusk brings mirth and folk song
winged silhouettes dance
through the night and so on, close
lilac lids and play pretend
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tanka |
| Metre | 0111 1111011 1011 1010111 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 138 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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