Analysis of The Flower-Fed Buffaloes
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
In the days of long ago,
Ranged where the locomotives sing
And the prarie flowers lie low:
The tossing, blooming, perfumed grass
Is swept away by wheat,
Wheels and wheels and wheels spin by
In the spring that still is sweet.
But the flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
Left us long ago,
They gore no more, they bellow no more:--
With the Blackfeet lying low,
With the Pawnee lying low.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011101 0011101 1100101 0011011 01010011 110111 1010111 0011111 101011101 11101 111111011 101101 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 419 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 333 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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