Analysis of Survivor
Tommy L. Maddox 1972 (North Carolina)
They who seek vengeance,
seeks death.
They who seek death,
are already dead.
They who are already dead,
never lived at all.
Those who never had life,
did not survive.
They who survive,
live forever.
Our hearts, our minds,
and in our very souls.
Fight on survivor and live.
| Scheme | XA AB BX XC CX XX C |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110 11 1111 10101 1110101 10111 111011 1101 1101 1010 101101 0010101 1101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 278 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 30 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Written on April 22, 2023
Submitted by tmaddox3 on April 22, 2023
Modified on April 22, 2023
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