Analysis of The Claiming Race
Fame means part of you
Maybe all of you
Belongs to someone else
Someone vicarious in their intent
Insatiable given their adulation
Proprietary,
Eschewing personal risk or harm
Watching from the comfort
Of either praise or blame
They claim your soul like a
Racehorse
When you win their hearts
Leaving your memory abandoned
—when dissident odds prevail
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2015)
| Scheme | AAXXXBXXXXXXXX B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 11111 10111 01111 101000101 0100101010 0100 10100111 101010 110111 111110 1 11111 101100010 1100101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 381 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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