Analysis of Why can't they hear?
I dream
in seven tongues
My children do not understand
They hear noise
Why can’t they
hear
the voices?
| Scheme | XX X X XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 0101 1101101 111 111 1 010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 115 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 1, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 21 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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