Analysis of Across The Red River Gorge
as
my soul
journeyed across
the
stiff
tightrope
across
the
red river gorge
where
my
legs felt like
cockatoo green bamboo stilts
that
emptied out
| Scheme | abcDefcDghijklm |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) |
| Metre | 1 11 1001 0 1 1 01 0 1101 1 1 111 101011 1 101 |
| Characters | 146 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 15 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 8 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Written on April 20, 2021
Submitted by gregory_g on April 20, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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