Analysis of The Labor of Days
what matters is the labor of days,
the grounded earth,
brown and steady
fertile and rich.
the fields are ripe with harvest,
the sun is bending to chafe grain.
years in the wind gather footsteps
etching stones.
what matters is the grounded earth.
I'll wrap my dreams in bandanas
and walk the garden planting.
| Scheme | XAXX XXXX AXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101011 0101 1010 1001 0111110 01110111 1001101 101 11010101 1111010 0101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 297 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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