Analysis of Asterisk *
Chief Speak-a-little-French 1980 (Calgary)
Note well
For this is my time to be who I am
And the danger of looking backward
Is at an end
Don’t harp on about
Alligators, and poisonous lizards
For we are free to be,
Just be
Asterisk, mark my place
And untold stories
Be damned
In the un-telling
| Scheme | XXXX XXAA XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 1111111111 001011010 1111 11101 100010010 111111 11 100111 00110 11 00110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 239 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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