Analysis of scarecrow
Paul hollingsworth 1962 (Mississippi)
In the middle of a corn field a scarecrow hangs lifeless , because life's unkind he doesn't mind. He doesn't think , his arms and legs only move in the wind.
He was made in a day , stuffed with hay , blue overalls , pale green shirt riddled with holes , flour sack head , yellow straw hat.
No bright colors , all subtle hues , without depth or contrast , just a shallow ssshhhh of unraveling composition in the poorest condition..
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 0010101101011001101110111011101101001 111001111110111101110111011 1110110101111010101101000100010010 |
| Characters | 506 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 110 |
| Words per line (avg) | 28 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 330 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 83 |
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