Analysis of Why Are We Shunn'd
April Kang 2009 (Los Angeles)
Muted grit, unfiltered debris.
Morphable glee
Which God gave life,
Then grabb’d a knife.
Spinning wheels, which do thumb the flesh.
To carve, to thresh;
Slim or rotund
Why are we shunn’d?
Naked and shying from man’s plight.
Seen as a blight,
Viewed from afar
Unfair, we are.
| Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Minute Poem Quatrain |
| Metre | 10101001 11 1111 1101 10111101 1111 1101 1111 10010111 1101 1101 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 285 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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