Analysis of Today.
He had a dream
about little black children
and little white children
holding hands
but their arms are not six feet long.
social distance is not amalgamation
segregation is apartheid
| Scheme | XAAX X AX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 0110110 010110 101 11111111 1010110010 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 187 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 1, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 50 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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