Analysis of Number One
James Dean and John Lennon both said, “You have to do it yourself.”
And romanticism precedes realism.
Like Springsteen’s Born to Run precedes Darkness at the Edge of Town.
And Genesis precedes origin of the species.
It’s like a building block.
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tanka (20%) |
| Metre | 110110111111101 0010001100 11111011010111 0100011001010 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 251 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Written on July 10, 2022
Submitted on July 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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