Analysis of His Broad Brimmed Hat Push'd Back With Careless Air

Joaquin Miller 1837 (Indiana) – 1913 (Oakland)



His broad brimmed hat push'd back with careless air,
The proud vaquero sits his steed as free
As winds that toss his black, abundant hair.


Scheme ABA
Poetic Form Terza rima 
Tercet 
Metre 1111111101 01111111 1111110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 136
Words 25
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 110
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Joaquin Miller

Cincinnatus Heine Miller, better known by his pen name Joaquin Miller, was a colorful American poet and frontiersman. He is nicknamed the "Poet of the Sierras" after the Sierra Nevada, about which he wrote in his Songs of the Sierras. more…

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