Analysis of Further To Roam
You can no more teach poetry
than a tiger to hunt
It must first be inside you
from those things that you’ve done
You can no more teach poetry
than an eagle unflown
If the words just won’t come
—you’ve got further to roam
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
| Scheme | Ax xb Ab xx x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111100 101011 1111011 111111 11111100 11101 101111 111011 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 270 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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