Analysis of 27 Club
Christened in the night
by rain
at the crossroads
Kissing each memory
that burns
—breathing his words again
(Hazlehurst Mississippi: October, 1975)
Scheme | XXXXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10001 11 101 101100 11 101101 1010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 152 |
Words | 23 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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