Analysis of Tracks Of The Behemoth
Life was born in the desert
but death came out of the sea
walking on all fours, breathing the air
—killing that never to be
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| Scheme | XAXA A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 1110010 1111101 101111001 1011011 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 154 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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