Analysis of Eight Miles Left
(From My 'Searching For Crazy Horse' Collection)
'Read In Elko Years Ago'
With ten more miles of wire
my horse wants to turn back
There’s dark clouds over the mountain
just a small tent in my sack
The fence line sits all busted
from two bulls that went astray
They both missed being neutered
last year on roundup day
My hands are cold and blistered
that salve jar all but gone
Two wolves begin to howling
that lonesome prairie song
The storm clouds now have thickened
light pulls its covers back
Just one more night on the western slope
—with eight miles left to track
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)
'Wrtten in 2006
Scheme | AX XB AB XC DC DX XX XB XB XX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11101101010 1010101 1111110 111111 11110010 1011011 0111110 1111101 1111010 11111 1111010 111111 1101110 110101 0111110 111101 111110101 111111 0100101 10 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 656 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 50 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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