Analysis of Walking The Line
Blood,
fires from my pen
like a well shot round
14 karat penetration,
mighty wound of
self aggression
Letters,
reducing armies
into a special force
Time dying,
as mortared ink strikes
the page
The raw edge of battle,
...new combatants die,
leaving their mark
Cursive warriors of the
spoken word,
martyred sentinels of a bigger truth,
—walking the line
(Richmond Virginia: December, 2002)
Scheme | XXX AXA XXX XXX XXX XXXX X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (55%) |
Metre | 1 10111 10111 10010 1011 1010 10 01010 010101 110 1111 01 011110 10101 1011 110010 101 1010010101 1001 10010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 377 |
Words | 63 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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