Analysis of Dumbstruck
The University rustler’s aim
herding and stealing…
hot irons from within
Professorial larcenous B.S. campaign
letters branded
to deceive and convince
The doctor licentiate
disguised as Jesse James
his gang riding shotgun up top
If they ever tally up all the things
they’ve unlearned, they will shoot
at each other—dumbstruck
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
| Scheme | XXX XAX AXX XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 001001001 10010 110101 0100100101 1010 101001 0101 011101 1110111 1110101101 11111 11101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 380 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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