Analysis of Swept Away
I cloak myself
in delicious rains
thin slippery strands
weak dark
and binding threads
swept away
to mourn
| Scheme | ABCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 00101 11001 11 0101 101 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 99 |
| Words | 18 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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