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
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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