Analysis of A Wilder Life
Trail blazing kids, motorcycle fake skids
grand canyon switchback shortcuts
downhill gravity danger less guts
facing rams, climbing trees
rams ramming trees, buckling knees
raccoons feasting on a pick nick table
smarter rascals, opening packages able
winter cardboard, sledding down
tree placements ahead, steering around
trails leading, feet sores bleeding
Johnny apple-seed stories seeding
logger's trucks narrow dirt roads
child's fascination hauling timber loads
names, mountain tops, drop in a box
traversing landscape dirt and snow
moving through wonderland, really slow
occasional bears, meadows and moose
bears opening coolers, wildlife on the loose
fishing down a river to a lake
hitchhiking snow falling, catching retake
Scheme | ABBCCDDEFGGHHIJJKKLL |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 110110011 11011 111001011 101101 1101101 0110101110 101010010010 101101 110011001 1101110 101011010 111011 101010101 11011001 0101101 10110101 01001101 1100101101 101010101 101101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 730 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 610 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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