Analysis of Silver Strings
Thin silver strings of steel
Softly strummed with love until
Angels stop their harps in heaven
To grasp a sunburst guitar in rhythm
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111 1011101 10111010 110101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 128 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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