Analysis of Cheyenne Cowboy
He was born and raised in old Cheyenne
And he grew up to be one hell of a man
His dad was a rancher, his momma was Sioux
And he was the bravest that I ever knew
Now he was just another cowboy
And that was all he wanted to be
But he rode the wind and touched the sky
From Abilene to Calgary
Some say he was a legend
But he always wondered why
He showed no fear when death was near
And never blinked an eye
But then one day he fell and then
He knew that he would die
And caused another star to burn
In that Wyoming sky
Now he was just another cowboy
And that was all he wanted to be
But he rode the wind and touched the sky
From Abilene to Calgary
Scheme | axbb CDED xexeaexe CDED |
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Poetic Form | Song |
Metre | 111010101 01111111101 11101011011 01101011101 11110101 011111011 111010101 1101100 1111010 111101 11111111 010111 11111101 111111 01010111 01101 11110101 011111011 111010101 1101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 626 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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