Analysis of HAIKU

sonja votolen

frozen bodies
of winter grasses lay
by the lazy river

Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 1010 110101 101010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 53
Words 10
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 44
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted on April 12, 2022

Modified on April 26, 2023

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sonja votolen

... poetry and prose writer, Slovenia, published eight books of poetry , a few drama texts and two prose works; also writing for different newspapers and magazines, she runs literary meetings, received awards for poetry in Italy , even the first international prize for poetry in Rome 2001. My poems in Italian were translated by Jolka Milič, a great Slovenian translator. 2019: two poetry books were published- Tudi brez peruti sem ptica ( in Slovenia) and Quando l'erba è giovane / Ko je trava mlada, 2019 ( in Italy, bilingual) more…

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