Analysis of Earth Mother
Stone swathes
Cut from earth
Broken Armor
Earths curse
Unbeknownst truth
We cut and take
Demise encroaching
Mother earth is dying
The rivers red
With the earth mothers blood
The landscape brown
With her dying visage
| Scheme | AXXA XXBB XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 111 1010 11 0011 1101 01010 101110 0101 101101 011 101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 204 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on June 15, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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