Analysis of Dead Horse Run



You can't do what can't be done.

You can't lose and eat a ton.
You can't fail if number one.
You can't live without the sun.
You can't succor and still stun.
You can't shoot without a gun.
You can't miss if you have won.
You can't be daughter and son.
You can't make displeasure fun.
You can't stop what's not begun.
You can't embrace and still shun.
You can't spin what can't be spun.
You can't give when you have none.
You can't make a dead horse run.

But. . .you can do what can be done.


Scheme A AAAAAAAAAAAAA A
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111 1110101 1111101 1110101 1110011 1110101 1111111 1111001 1110101 1111101 1101011 1111111 1111111 1110111 11111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 476
Words 97
Sentences 18
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 13, 1
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 119
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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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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