Analysis of Trek of Insanity
We lept to the shore
From our strange craft
Large Rapids before us
The days of dull drifting
And numbers had failed
No time for the burials
Just time to divide
All their loot.
And crimes done
So numerous, disdainful.
This lust for the gold
Left strange fruit.
A potful of java
A warm fire, songs
Faking some cheer.
But Death still
Awaited His dinners.
Before ere the Dawson
The whiskey and women.
The foolishness bought
With one’s poke.
And would there be
Or rather Fate’s
The toss of a life
In the frozen.
The loss of wife
Children and Home.
The thrill of those
Curtained skies calling.
The call of the harpies
Scheme | X X A B X X X C D X X C X X X X X D D X X X X E D E X X B A |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (43%) Etheree (40%) |
Metre | 11101 11011 110011 011110 01011 1110100 11101 111 011 1100010 11101 111 01110 01101 1011 111 010110 011010 010010 01001 111 0111 1101 01101 0010 0111 1001 0111 1110 01101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 765 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 30 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 16 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 4 |
About this poem
A tribute to poet Robert W Service. In his fashion and grim topics. Of gold.
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Written on February 12, 2023
Submitted by dougb.21370 on February 12, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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