Analysis of Trail of Tears
Why is it companionship we crave but happiness A
is never desired enough to change our destiny B
are we just a victim of circumstance or do we B
expect more and get less in life because we B
fail to strive to struggle to survive for what we B
expect or deserve that's what leads us to the B
trail of tears in this retrogressive world of C
half-truth and broken spoken collective agreements D
on this collision course called life Always being E
set up to fail: So Never complain and never explain F
Scheme | ABBBBBCDEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010111100 110010011110100 111010110111 01101101011 111110101111 01101111110 11101111 1101010010010 11010111110 11111100101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 488 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 389 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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