Analysis of Overrun



Columbus discovered the tribe
missions and churches Christianity describe
faith in overrun villages sad
humanity failed drunken depressed and mad
natural science balanced generations swelling
singular residents cone shaped dwelling
brought about by ages by different stages
carried their young, pipe filled lung
mixture tribes warring territory
civilized chief like glory
bows and arrows powder and lead
no match against bullets machine-gun fed
Indians knowing not to own the land
migrating war drums pounding hand
whether or not to become
eye to eye chief tribe done
clothing of leather head-dress of feather
beds of love spirits from above
white-mans expedition finding new space
as a citizen you should feel some disgrace


Scheme AABBCCDEFFGGHHIJKLMM
Poetic Form Etheree  (25%)
Metre 01001001 10010010001 10101001 01001100101 100101001010 1001001110 101110110010 1011111 10110100 101110 10101001 1101100111 1001011101 1011101 1011101 111111 1011011110 11110101 110101011 10100111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 724
Words 111
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 610
Words per stanza (avg) 111

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Submitted by Soul-to-song on June 08, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Brian Oliveri

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