Analysis of Birds/Jets



One little bird, flew in the sky
one big jumbo, passing by
the bird was scared and hid away
but the jumbojets were there to stay


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Balliol Rhyme 
Quatrain 
Tanaga 
Trova 
Metre 11011001 1110101 01110101 1010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 125
Words 26
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 101
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on September 05, 2009

Modified on March 05, 2023

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