Analysis of Locked In Kayenta
Where are you headed…
the waitress asked me at breakfast
Where have you been to…
I responded in kind
Never down to the Canyon,
though I’ve always meant to go there
I’m headed to the Canyon
—now go quit your job
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
| Scheme | XX XX AX AX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110 01011110 11111 101001 1011010 1111111 1101010 11111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 262 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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