Analysis of Headed West
In the darkness last night,
I heard Crazy Horse call
The wind through the willows,
new horse in my stall
His words my direction,
the hail in my storm…
“Your brothers await you
—the council fire warm”
(Dreamsleep: July, 2019)
Motorcycle From Pa. To L.A. 7-18-2019
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 001011 111011 01101 11011 111010 01011 110011 010101 11 1001111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 262 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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