Analysis of Nebraska
His black eyes tried to see me,
With artificial English words,
He never shared the secret thoughts,
And was not as cosmopolitan as first perceived.
His secret life hid away, his coldness now
understandable, I watched him walk away.
He thought himself a city man
But down deep, where his conscience lay buried
And his soul cast aside,
He was nothing but a boy from Nebraska
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJ |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1111111 1010101 11010101 011101001101 11011011101 0100111101 11010101 1111110110 011101 11101011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 378 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 298 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Written on August 13, 2000
Submitted by billiar1930 on October 27, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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