Analysis of Africa
Chief Speak-a-little-French 1980 (Calgary)
Africa:
It is a lost place
One thinks of sunny
Blue skies
And then thunderstorms
Of running through
Vast, vast, vast
Open grasslands
Of cooking on a fire,
Of looking out
Over the hills of our
Homeland, homeland, home –
Land, land, land
| Scheme | XXXXX XXX AXAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100 11011 11110 11 0110 1101 111 101 1101010 1101 1001110 111 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 225 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 3, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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