Analysis of East Africa
Somehow this place feels like home.
Rich red dirt and banana trees are a part of me
more than my grande soy peppermint mochas.
How can your heart, mind, and soul belong to a continent?
Afrika ya Mashariki.
| Scheme | XXX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 111111 1110010110111 111111010 11111010110100 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 201 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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