Analysis of Unintended Consequences
Marvin Snell 1949 (Florida)
A doe grazes in the colorful meadow,
With her fawn safely hidden nearby.
While a meadowlark sings perched on a fence,
Watching the bees go buzzing by.
This is an all too familiar picture,
One that takes place almost ever day.
A routine soon to be shattered,
In a cruel and tragic way.
Lifting her head above the flowers,
Sorting the scents wafting by.
She sniffs for signs of danger,
From sources lurking nearby.
A breath of wind heads towards the meadow,
Carrying with it an ominous scent.
Forecasting imminent danger,
A warning with grave consequence.
Instinctually she knows her fawns in danger,
And won't be safe if she were to stay.
So she heads out of the meadow,
In hopes of luring the source away.
Before she entered an open field,
Her destiny was already in play.
It came in the form of a hunters arrow,
Signaling this will be her last day.
And as the archer watched her drop,
From the safety of his blind.
Not only had he killed a doe,
He killed a precious fawn in kind.
Scheme | ABXB CDXD XBCB AXCX CDAD XDAD XEAE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 011001001 101101011 101011101 10011101 1111101010 11111101 00111110 00100101 100101010 1001101 1111110 1101011 011110101 1001111001 1010010 01011100 11101010 011111011 1111101 011100101 011101101 0100101001 11001101010 100111011 01010101 1010111 11011101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,006 |
Words | 203 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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