Analysis of The Beckoning Wind
The road is your only
companion
When the memories won’t kill you
—but the lingering will
(Highway 93 Lolo Montana: September, 1990)
Scheme | XXXX X |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) Cinquain (20%) Lanturne (20%) |
Metre | 011110 010 10100111 101001 11010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 132 |
Words | 22 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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