Analysis of On the Capture and Imprisonment of Crazy Snake, January, 1900
Alexander Posey 1873 (Eufaula, Creek Nation, Indian Territory) – 1908 (Oklahoma)
Down with him! chain him! bind him fast!
Slam to the iron door and turn the key!
The one true Creek, perhaps the last
To dare declare, “You have wronged me!”
Defiant, stoical, silent,
Suffers imprisonment!
Such coarse black hair! such eagle eye!
Such stately mien!—how arrow-straight!
Such will! such courage to defy
The powerful makers of his fate!
A traitor, outlaw,—what you will,
He is the noble red man still.
Condemn him and his kind to shame!
I bow to him, exalt his name!
| Scheme | ABABCC DEDEFF GG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111111 1101010101 01110101 11011111 010110 100100 11111101 11011101 11110101 010010111 0101111 11010111 01101111 11110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 502 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 15 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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