Analysis of Gold Fever
Kathy A. Wittman 1949 (Tennessee)
As I search for obscure treasures
on the walls of this dilapidated shack
hidden on this mountain slope,
an old newspaper scrap catches my eye.
I furtively try to unravel a path to this insignificant event,
recorded with scrutiny by some zealous reporter decades ago.
I envision those arrogant, surly miners
looking at these fascinating societal tidbits
in the eerie shadows cast by their brilliant kerosene lanterns,
as they sat idly by, gambling and drinking their lives away.
I was told that many of these cabins remained intact
just three decades ago,
proudly displaying their domestic artifacts,
museum-style, until they were ransacked.
No one thought to photograph those relics
before destruction and decay set in,
and now these mountains are empty and silent.
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| Metre | 11110110 1011101001 1011101 111011011 1100110100111010001 010110011100100101 101011001010 1011100010010 00101111101010 1111011000101101 11111011100101 110101 10010101010 010101101 111110110 0101000110 01110110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 749 |
| Words | 123 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 209 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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