Analysis of The three elephants



My dearest child, let me tell you a tale about three elephants that were rustled from the beautiful savannas of Africa and chained together here for sixteen years.
The biggest one was the mother, the others sister and brother.
One day a very rich Indian man, happened to visit this tiny village and he noticed how cruely the elephants had been treated, scared and brutalised. And he made it his fateful vow  to free the elephants and he took them with him to the Ganges where they wondered into the river and worshiped Ganesha himself.


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Poetic Form Tercet 
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Characters 535
Words 97
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 144
Words per line (avg) 32
Letters per stanza (avg) 432
Words per stanza (avg) 96
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Written on June 21, 2022

Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on June 21, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Heather Lydia Thornhill

Moods and mindsets poetry. Published. Book in progress: Don't talk rot. more…

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