Analysis of 2020/12/05 ~ America's Unheard Million

Cheyenne Seaman 2003 (Philadelphia)



Dashed upon the rocks,
   drowning far from sea,
America's unheard million
   make their silent plea.

A needle's in his arm.
   He's shooting up another line.
Just to escape the pain,
   he's always living for another high.

Turned away from door to door,
    now livin' in the streets;
Kicked out from her home,
   there goes another pregnant teen.

He's fighting day-to-day
   against abusive guardians.
Hiding back in the dark
   is America's unheard million.

She's got a bottle in her hand,
   another in the other.
She's got bright red lipstick on,
   being sold out by someone's brother.

Bloodied fists, blackened eyes,
    their making street-friend ties.
America's unheard million
   are just barely scraping by.

Cardboard boxes turned into homes,
   darkened nights and feeling alone;
America's unheard million speak out,
   their words chillin' to the bone.

Torrential rains, blizzard snow;
   searching for help wherever they go.
The unheard million are searching
   for warmth and love to know.


Scheme xaBa xxxc xxxx xxxb xdxd eeBc xfxf ggxg
Poetic Form Quatrain  (38%)
Metre 10101 10111 01000110 11101 01011 11010101 110101 111010101 1011111 11001 11101 11010101 110111 01010100 101001 101000110 11010001 0100010 111111 10111110 101101 110111 01000110 1110101 1101011 10101001 0100011011 111101 0101101 101101011 00110110 110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 973
Words 153
Sentences 14
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Modified by RoseofVenus on August 14, 2021

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Cheyenne Seaman

Born in PA in 2003. Raised in NC. Love to read. Mother, first & foremost. Poet & Story Writer. Carpenter, Tutor, Babysitter, Sister, Daughter. more…

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