Analysis of Song of A Tree Man



And I touched him, to remember,
standing tall like so many others.

Ive seen so much fade away.

A voice yells out, YOU WORKING FOR FREE?
I start my chainsaw
look back up,

And ask him to forgive me.


Scheme XX X AXX A
Poetic Form
Metre 01111010 101111010 1111101 011111011 1111 111 0111011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 190
Words 39
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 1, 3, 1
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 38
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted on May 30, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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