Analysis of Haiku: Winter's Breath



Love letters written
with fingertips on windows
paling crimson suns


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 11010 110110 1101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 65
Words 10
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 58
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on April 10, 2023

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