Analysis of 'One Last Dance'
My heart stays in Wyoming
but Montana calls my name
My spurs and bits ‘a jingling’
as my soul goes north again
Cody up through Beartooth Pass
Cooke City just below
The Great Divide off to my left
the glaciers ringed with snow
I stop to mourn the western tribes
as dark clouds form above
The war chant of Tasunka-Witko
crying out with love
My spirit loose to roam the land
the great Oglala’s words I hear
Two kindred souls in one last dance
—as Wakan Tanka draws us near
(From ‘Searching For Crazy Horse’: February, 2017)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 1010111 110101 1111101 101111 110101 01011111 010111 11110101 111101 011111 10111 11011101 011111 11010111 111111 1101101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 533 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 207 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on September 12, 2023
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on September 12, 2023
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