Analysis of Wisp
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
love,
an elusive specter,
a wisp of smoke,
floating
in the vast expanse,
disappearing with a blink,
ungraspable,
intangible,
a phantom that haunts,
stirs the soul
yet often
leaves us
empty-handed.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGGHGIJK |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1 101010 0111 10 00101 010101 1 0100 01011 101 110 11 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 201 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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