Analysis of Graves Of Our Fathers
The Black Hills are crying,
our Mother forsaken
Enemy boot prints
where moccasins claim
To live just to die
in noble futility
All drums beat in silence
—He Sapa in shame
(Pine Ridge South Dakota: July, 2019)
| Scheme | XX XA BX XA B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011110 1010010 10011 11001 11111 0100100 111010 1101 1110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 201 |
| Words | 37 |
| 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) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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