Analysis of Speck
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
I walk through the city streets,
slick with rain and neon lights.
The crowds move like living waves,
each person a story untold.
A man playing guitar on the corner
fills the air with sweet melodies,
while a couple argues intensely
in a language I don't understand.
The scent of grilled meat and spices
mingles with the exhaust fumes,
and I inhale deeply, feeling alive
in this chaotic, vibrant world.
I see a homeless woman huddled
beneath a shelter, her eyes dull
with exhaustion and despair,
and my heart breaks for her loneliness.
Yet despite the chaos and diversity,
there is a unity in the thrumming
rhythm of this city, a shared beat
that connects us in our humanness.
I am just one person in this mass,
a speck in the grand scheme of things,
but for this moment, I feel infinite,
part of something greater than myself.
Scheme | XXXX XXAX XXXX XXXB AXXB XXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101 1110101 0111101 11001001 0110011010 10111100 101010010 00101101 01111010 1010011 0101101001 01010101 110101010 01010011 1010001 011110100 10101000100 110100001 101110011 1011010100 111110011 01001111 1111011100 11101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 830 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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