Analysis of The playground
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
The playground was staged
With dress light and colour
Sounds of cheering and whistles
Lead them in tidy order
During PE
Like springing thistles on a windy moor
Making faces to adore
| Scheme | ABCBDBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111 11101 1110010 1101010 101 1101010101 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 183 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Written on June 15, 2022
Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on June 15, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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