Analysis of Highway 61
Maintaining his distance,
Dylan felt safe
A musical drifter
not born for one place
His words once released,
to live on their own
The road calling windward
—far from his home
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010110 1011 010010 11111 11101 11111 011010 1111 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 211 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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