Analysis of Follow The Bubbles
John Jessup Kennan 1953 (Pomona)
There was a story in the news
A man died under the stars
Drowned face down in an inch of water
On a rainy night outside a bar
I asked my daddy about it
Impossible to believe
He said it's true, it could happen
It's about being able to breathe
My whole life, I avoided puddles
Enter at your peril, or else
You might fall in, but it's all in
How you position yourself
And then I met you
Each ripple reflected upset
I nearly drowned in your eyes
Though my toes never even got wet
If death be my wish
I'll feed those fish
Sharks lurking in your blue
Should I so desire
To drown I'll require
A drowning pool deeper than you
There's wormwood in those waters
There's tonic in that gin
I left poison puddles behind
And taught myself to swim
Hold your breath, follow the bubbles
From the depth of that sea down there
Follow those bubbles, reach for the stars
Beathe that cleansing air
My whole life, I avoided puddles
Enter at your peril, or else
You might fall in, but it's all in
How you position yourself
Now I'm living in the Living Waters
I go dancing in the rain
A mermaid, an amphibian
Salt water running through my veins
Sometimes it leaks right down my cheeks
From heart through eyes to a cleansing shore
I cry all night, but it's all right
That's what Living Waters are for
My whole life, I avoided puddles
Enter at your peril, or else
You might fall in, but it's all in
How you position yourself
Streams don't try to carry themselves
They move freely, naturally
Tugboats, ships, and popsicle sticks
Come to float carefree with me
I am mermaid, I am amphibian
Fish live in my veins
Living in the Living Waters
Come, dance with me in the rain
Come, swim with me in the rain
My whole life, I avoided puddles...
© John Kennan 10-15-15
Scheme | xabx xxcx DEFG hixi jjhbbh kfxx dlal DEFG kmcn xoxo DEFG xpxp cnkmm D c |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010001 0111001 111011110 101011101 11110011 0100101 11111110 101101011 111101010 10111011 11101110 1101001 01111 11001001 1101011 111101011 11111 1111 110011 111010 11110 01011011 110110 110011 11101001 01111 11110010 10111111 101101101 11101 111101010 10111011 11101110 1101001 1110001010 1110001 0110100 11010111 01111111 111110101 11111111 11101011 111101010 10111011 11101110 1101001 11111001 11101000 1101001 111111 111110100 11011 10001010 1111001 1111001 111101010 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,719 |
Words | 330 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 57 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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