Analysis of Lakota Wisdom
The wolf demands
what the shepherd
can’t protect
A busy hand
helps the angry heart
forget
(Pine Ridge South Dakota: July, 2019)
‘To Mari Sandoz’
| Scheme | XXX XXX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101 1010 101 0101 10101 01 1110101 11010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 144 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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