Analysis of First Poem
Release your mind from the
drought of expedience
And harvest in the crops
of your insanity
(Philadelphia, Woodand Ave: September 1972)
Note: This is the first serious poem that I wrote as
a struggling graduate student living in the
bowels of West Philadelphia.
| Scheme | AX XX X XAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011110 110100 010001 110100 010011010 11101100101111 0100100101000 10110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 283 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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