Analysis of Yoke
Sean Taylor 1968 (Georgia)
(It is said that children who have been abused have a greater likelihood of becoming abusers themselves.)
She is a drooping rose
Weighted by the rain
Hunched,
Leaning above a younger bloom
Careful to pour out her burden
Beyond the newer pedals.
© 1994 Sean Taylor
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111011101101010101001001 110101 10101 1 10010101 10111010 0101010 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 257 |
Words | 47 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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