Poem Analysis of Statistical Haiku (Or, How Do They Discount Us? Let Me Count The Ways) by Evie Shockley for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Statistical Haiku (Or, How Do They Discount Us? Let Me Count The Ways) that begins with:

only 3 of 100 black boys
entering kindergarten will graduate college—...

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Rhyme scheme: aXa bXX cbX XcX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1010111 1001010010010 0011101 10010110 1010101101 10101010001 01101110 10110010010 10101001 100110 0110100100 11010101
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
Average number of words per stanza: 17
Amount of lines: 12
Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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Statistical Haiku (Or, How Do They Discount Us? Let Me Count The Ways) by Evie Shockley: poem analysis

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