Analysis of Will We Trudge On In Our Ruts (Bussokusekika)
Edwin Tanguma 1966 (CA)
Will We Trudge On In Our Ruts (Bussokusekika)
Our pasts are our pasts
Our futures are our futures
We have lived our pasts
We've yet to live our futures
Will we change how we live-- or,
Will we trudge on in our ruts
Edwin Tanguma 5/17/2023
| Scheme | X ABABXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101011 1011101 101011010 111101 11111010 1111111 11110101 10010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 244 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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