Analysis of The Greatest
Racecraft is... The
Tunnel vision from
snaking through Monaco
Leading the pack with
Nearly a minute between you
And the next car
Nailing apexes
The perfect braking pressure
Blending these transactions until smooth
It's flying through the Finnish forest
As the best-known son of a racing dynasty
Piloting the fastest accelerating car in history
Taming a beast known for brutality
And fragility, a twin-charged rocket
Built of popsicle sticks and balsa wood
It's about knowing the limit
of man and machine how far they can dream
And daring to take them there
| Scheme | XXXXXXXXX XAA ABX BXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110 10101 10110 10011 10010011 0011 101 0011010 101010011 110101010 101111010100 100010010010100 1001110100 0010001110 1110010101 10110010 1100111111 0101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 563 |
| Words | 99 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
I wrote this in January as a kind of tribute to Ayrton Senna and Henri Toivonen.
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Written on January 27, 2021
Submitted by xanderxm12 on December 11, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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