Analysis of My Grandfather Wore Stripes
When the drums beckoned from Accomgpong Town,
my grandfather run, and run, and run;
my grandfather ran at high speed
over saw-toothed terrain
with vicious rocks hacking at naked soles,
and blood-hounds mauling at his heels.
My grandfather wore stripes
like the red, white and blue;
and when the hot sun rides the raw waves on his back,
my grandfather stand tall to wipe the sweat from his brow,
then my grandfather wear whips
that echoed louder than the drums
that called beyond Mount Diablo,
but no one was running to his rescue.
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Metre | 10110111 11010101 1101111 101101 1101101101 0111111 11011 101101 010111011111 110111101111 111011 11010101 1101110 1111101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 517 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 8 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 212 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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