Analysis of Coyote
Alexander Posey 1873 (Eufaula, Creek Nation, Indian Territory) – 1908 (Oklahoma)
A few days more, and then
There’ll be no secret glen,
Or hollow, deep and dim,
To hide or shelter him.
And on the prairie far,
Beneath the beacon star
On evening’s dark’ning shore,
I’ll hear him nevermore.
For where the tepee smoke
Curled up of yore, the stroke
Of hammers rings all day,
And grim Doom shouts, “Make way!”
The immemorial hush
Is broken by the rush
Of armed enemies
Unto the utmost seas.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 011101 111101 110101 111101 010101 010101 11011 11110 11011 111101 110111 011111 001001 110101 11100 10011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 399 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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