Analysis of Distant Hooves
America’s
faded glory
the polo field
reminds
Of years
of fleeting greatness
and hopes that lived
in kind
A child walks
the ball field
where ponies
used to tread
With memories
buried deep below
their grandeur
— all but dead
(The New Room: March, 2024)
| Scheme | XXAX XXXX XABC BXXC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0100 1010 0101 01 11 11010 0111 01 011 011 110 111 1100 10101 101 111 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 258 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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