Analysis of Dead Horse Run
You can't do what can't be done.
You can't lose and eat a ton.
You can't fail if number one.
You can't live without the sun.
You can't succor and still stun.
You can't shoot without a gun.
You can't miss if you have won.
You can't be daughter and son.
You can't make displeasure fun.
You can't stop what's not begun.
You can't embrace and still shun.
You can't spin what can't be spun.
You can't give when you have none.
You can't make a dead horse run.
But. . .you can do what can be done.
Scheme | A AAAAAAAAAAAAA A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 1110101 1111101 1110101 1110011 1110101 1111111 1111001 1110101 1111101 1101011 1111111 1111111 1110111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 476 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 13, 1 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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