Analysis of In this country

Ron Black Cloud

hate is passed on
like a bowl of potatoes
at Sunday dinner

Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 1111 1011010 1110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 59
Words 13
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 47
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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