Analysis of Not like them.
I do not want to meet
where the pastors preach
I want to retreat
where the pasture’s green
Where the masters teach
teach me to grasp what my hands can’t reach.
plaster the foundation
that I lack so deep
I do not mean
to casually create
more casualties
| Scheme | AB AC BB XX CXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 10101 11101 10101 10101 111111111 100010 11111 1111 1100001 11000 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 266 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Written on August 24, 1993
Submitted by 93til_divinity on June 11, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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