Analysis of Why the Forehead Dot?
Douglas Blair 1951 (London)
They come here
With vestiges of the old.
A red dot or yellow.
In old country.
Admixture, or not.
Rules binding generations.
Binding Mom and Dad.
Do they breathe freely
In this, the True North?
Or rather a new host
Of challenges, limits, hurts?
Their own sort of explorers.
| Scheme | X X X A X X X A X X X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 1100101 011110 0110 111 110010 10101 11110 01011 110011 1100101 1111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 358 |
| Words | 81 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 12 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 18 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 4 |
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Written on January 09, 2023
Submitted by dougb.72572 on January 09, 2023
Modified by dougb.72572 on January 09, 2023
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