Analysis of What the Miner in the Desert Said
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
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The moon's a brass-hooped water-keg,
A wondrous water-feast.
If I could climb the ridge and drink
And give drink to my beast;
If I could drain that keg, the flies
Would not be biting so,
My burning feet be spry again,
My mule no longer slow.
And I could rise and dig for ore,
And reach my fatherland,
And not be food for ants and hawks
And perish in the sand.
| Scheme | XA XAXAXBXBXAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101010011 111 01011101 010101 11110101 011111 11111101 111101 11011101 111101 01110111 01110 01111101 010001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 475 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 12 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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