Analysis of Can no man tame?
With rage I stand idle by,
I lose my tongue and give a try.
With emotion filled,
The crowd Is stilled.
I cannot reverse what was done,
And certain there, no battle won.
With the dust settled, and the crowd away,
I stand alone, nothing to say.
Scheme | AABBCCDD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 11110101 10101 0111 11001111 01011101 1011000101 11011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 242 |
Words | 54 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 185 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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