Analysis of Last Mojo Child (Blues Poem #14)



You is what you is,
  and you ain’t what you ain’t

The last Mojo Child,
 —of the love and the hate

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)


Scheme XA AA X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (60%)
Metre 11111 011111 01101 101001 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 138
Words 25
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 33
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 26, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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