Analysis of Mlk

Mathilde Dumas

Gun kill bodies
Neither souls nor ideals
Dreams stay alive

Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 1110 101101 1101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 56
Words 10
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 49
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted on September 26, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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