Analysis of Canyon Dancers
Deep in the canyon with the grace of your souls
carrying your memory inside me
Visiting places where we spent time before
seeing each one of your faces
Hearing your voices whispering inside
reminding of what we knew then
Sealing a vision all time has denied
old beginnings freed from the end
Deep in the canyon, the cliffs high above
the echoes like condors they climb
The river runs wild as it carries our dream
like a mother in birth of a child
The wind calls out once, then calls out again
its question defying an answer
As our souls reunite in the vastness below
—the story of five canyon dancers
(Havasupai Indian Village: January, 2019)
Scheme | XA XX BC BX XX XX CX XX A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010101111 1001100011 10010111101 10111110 1011010001 01011111 1001011101 10101101 1001001101 01011011 010111110101 101001101 0111111101 110010110 110101001001 010111010 110010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 648 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 58 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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