Analysis of Crowd Of Wanderers



There is an enchanted step
As you squeeze around the crowd
And try to breathe through the smoky air
There are throngs of faces
Kind, worried, mean, forlorn
Each with it's own definition
Wanderers on global mission
All seeking a destiny


Scheme ABCDEFFG
Poetic Form
Metre 1110101 1110101 011110101 111110 110101 1111010 10011010 1100100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 228
Words 41
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 191
Words per stanza (avg) 41
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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