Analysis of 1883. Trail of Beauty and Carcasses
Douglas Blair 1951 (London)
Watching a series
Greenhorns just took
The long trail.
Hardly knew which
Ways to fail.
Wild cattle rustled
In passing. Some killed.
Beef for the bunch of them
Rustlers a worry
Firearms held close
Safe to keep.
Much of their furnishings
Let go bankside.
Crossing a River cold, deep.
Folks include Slavics
Never used rifle or knife.
Watched by the Trail Boss
At all hours.
And strangely, for Life.
He is a grouchy one
He lost his girls
To the pox.
Never reveals of
This heart grief.
Only to one girl
She has her own
Pain on saddle.
First love was shot
Down by thieves.
Tireless she moves
On Day’s fresh trail.
Visions of Oregon
Farms for the clearing
Will they survive
The months coming.
Will they have
All that they need?
| Scheme | A X B X B C C X X X D X C D A E X X E F X X X X X X X C X X B F G X G X C |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010 111 011 1011 111 1101 01011 110111 100010 1011 111 111100 111 1001011 1011 1011011 11011 1110 01011 110101 1111 101 10011 111 10111 1101 1110 1111 111 10011 1111 101100 11010 1101 0110 111 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 901 |
| Words | 226 |
| Sentences | 25 |
| Stanzas | 37 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 37 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 15 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 4 |
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Written on January 10, 2023
Submitted by dougb.72572 on January 10, 2023
Modified by dougb.72572 on January 10, 2023
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