Analysis of Border of Tears
David Cronk 1977
Give me your tired, your poor, priced while losing no sleep. By King bedded fat cats who's pockets run deep.
The huddling masses, no hope to breathe free. Caged, separated, no freedom to see.
The wretched refuse, the burden in cage
The cost to the citizen, patriot rage.
Walls of a tyrant, to settle a score
a key cast away, a locked golden door.
| Scheme | ABCCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101111101111101111011 01001011111110011011 0100101001 01101001001 1101011001 0110101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 341 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 267 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted by DaveCronkBuffalo on April 23, 2021
Modified by DaveCronkBuffalo on August 09, 2021
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