Analysis of Down
Peewee Cuson 1983 (Indiana)
From headstone of a tombstone
lies a man without a name
Bound and gagged into earthen home
burying away dark shame
Floodwater washes sanity to ocean
evil tide pulling me away
Moons gone; hand of fate in motion
burned by the flame
Drag river's deep a few times
rise within twisted shallows
murky mind seeping like slime
hold breath; down we go
| Scheme | XAXA BXBA CCXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 11101 1010101 10101101 1000111 1010100110 10110101 11111010 1101 1101011 101101 1011011 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 344 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Written on September 16, 2023
Submitted by rossington4200 on October 17, 2023
Modified by rossington4200 on October 17, 2023
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