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
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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Written on April 17, 2024

Submitted by joes.06596 on April 24, 2024

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