Analysis of Who'll Cast The First Stone (Senryu)
Edwin Ray Tanguma 1966 (Los Angeles)
Who'll Cast The First Stone (Senryu)
Man is on the brink
Of its annihilation
Who'll cast the first stone
Edwin Ray Tanguma 2/23/2022
| Scheme | X XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 110111 11101 110010 11011 101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 138 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
About this poem
One day man will destroy their selves...I sure hope my signet is returned to me before such a thing happens...I guess that we will just have to wait and see...Oh well...Life will go on...Won't it???
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Written on February 23, 2022
Submitted by EdwinRayTanguma on February 23, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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