Analysis of The Human Beings
No one would claim their equal…
each the promised man
“Hunting what the others feared,
drumbeats called from far and near,
ghosts were dancing—vision clear”
The Northern Cheyenne
(Dreamsleep: April, 2021)
Scheme | AX XBB X A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110 10101 1010101 111101 1010101 01001 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 206 |
Words | 31 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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