Analysis of In Lament Of The Cowboy
A scant twenty years,
grieved a century or more
Poetically perfect,
in spirit and lore
A man and his horse,
alone on the range
The cattle his instruments,
and music to play
Civil War veterans and blacks
from the South
Through dust and dark clouds,
snowy blizzards that mount
Together they battled,
in concert they fought
Each unto himself,
life’s harmony caught
The hardship and death,
to him worth the price
Pushing always ahead,
a stranger to fright
The only thing telling,
to be left at the end
Was the legend he gave us
—and the message it sends
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
Scheme | XA XA XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (32%) |
Metre | 01101 1010011 010001 01001 01011 01101 0101100 01011 10110001 101 11011 101011 010110 01011 11001 11001 01001 11101 10101 01011 010110 111101 1010111 001011 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 572 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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