Analysis of One Last Drink
On a barstool
somewhere
in a lost America
with a stranger
who calls me friend
All options
dwindling
my fate in his hands
—and nearly at the end
(Choteau Montana: Ranger Jacks Bar, August 2004)
| Scheme | XXXXAXXXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 101 1 0010100 1010 1111 110 100 11011 010101 1010101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 186 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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