Analysis of The Eagle Cries
So much lost…
so little gained
Prairies in judgment,
our destiny framed
So little gained
for what we lost
Spirits now orphaned
—tomorrow the cost
(Browning Montana: Blackfoot Reservation - May, 1995).
| Scheme | aB xx Ba xx x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 1101 10010 101001 1101 1111 10110 0101 1001010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 197 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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