Analysis of Safeguarding
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
The men
With the pistols
Turned their attention
To the man
Holding a machete.
He smiled a toothy grin
And they all chuckled
At something unsaid.
To anyone else,
It would have been
A terrifying moment,
But they were all
Comfortable with death.
For all of their sin
And addiction,
They knew
They could control
Their behavior.
They knew when
And where
To unleash
Their violence,
And they knew
How to protect
Themselves.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIFJKLFCMNOAPQRMST |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (64%) |
Metre | 01 1010 11010 101 10001 110101 01110 11001 1101 1111 010010 1101 100011 11111 0010 11 1101 1010 111 01 101 1100 011 1101 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 439 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 25 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 335 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
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