Analysis of Ah Yue Shda
A Lakota Sioux Elder
once prophetically said…
“We will be known forever
by the tracks we leave behind”
That wisdom now marking
a trail of tears
—any hope still yet to find
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
| Scheme | AX AB XXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0010110 111 1111010 1011101 110110 0111 1011111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 223 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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