Analysis of Martian Marching (2015)



ranking the rovers, over and over,
jerking down the ravines, searching for frozen H2O.
just like any old four leaf clover,
but just go with my friends, who can walk on snow.

we jetted the Stars and Stripes on the moon,
ancient varied history, now we strive for starred dreams.
and just wish before a human lands on a Mars it could be a goon,
and here I am just hanging out in gyms hanging from beams.


Scheme ABAB CDCD
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 1001010010 1010011011011 111011110 11111111111 1100101101 1010100111111 01101010110111101 01111101011011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 393
Words 77
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 156
Words per stanza (avg) 39
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Submitted on April 20, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Doug Hall

Even though I was given a Brit Milah (Jewish circumcision) 8 days after I was born in the USA I have never known my Hebrew name. I have created various ones including Ephraim ben Uri and Achael ben Uriel. If anyone knows my Hebrew name from August 1968 in Massachusetts please let me know... more…

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