Analysis of Fences
He created his prison
fence post by fence post.
He hammered hardened dreams
deep into brittle earth, sheer
will made them stand,
tall and straight,
daring the sky, tinted yellow
like an old photograph.
Once, he had read
good fences make good neighbors
but neighbors were not his
concern, only the land
and sturdy posts fencing in
what was his.
Scheme | XXXXAXXX XXBAXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010110 11111 110101 1011011 1111 101 10011010 11110 1111 1101110 110011 011001 0101100 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 330 |
Words | 60 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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