Analysis of My Fancy
Alexander Posey 1873 (Eufaula, Creek Nation, Indian Territory) – 1908 (Oklahoma)
Why do trees along the river
Lean so far out o’er the tide?
Very wise men tell me why, but
I am never satisfied;
And so I keep my fancy still,
That trees lean out to save
The drowning from the clutches of
The cold, remorseless wave.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101010 1111101 10111111 111010 01111101 111111 01010101 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 244 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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