Analysis of The Approach
Steve Cochrane 1955 (Cape)
Each obstacle that's in our way
Can be a steppingstone
Or we could stumble and delay
Due to a broken bone.
We must approach each barrier
As though a pebble that
Is not an Air Force carrier,
In search of some combat.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 110010101 11010 11110001 110101 11011100 110101 11111100 011110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 216 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
The obstacles in front.
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