Analysis of Here In Twenty-Twenty
Spyder rider in the desert
At twenty-four in fifty-five
At forty-six and forty-one
Nine thirty at five forty-five
A nineteen fifty pickup truck
Turned to the nine and straight-away
James Dean went through the twelve portal
Six twenty DOA
He took the bullets
Hindsight is never what it seems
Shiny objects and sparkly smiles
Light and shadow on a great big screen
Left us here in twenty-twenty
Rebels without a dream
Eleven twenty-two in sixty-three
Turned to the nine near Elm and Main
Twelve-thirty central standard time
A presidential motorcade
Rushed to Parkland Memorial
The forty-six year JFK
Taken through the twelve portal
One o'clock DOA
He took the bullets
Hindsight is never what it seems
Shiny objects and sparkly smiles
Light and shadow on a great big screen
Left us here in twenty-twenty
Rebels without a dream
Sanitation workers out on strike
Hungry as beggars at the gate
In three oh six at six oh one
Oh four oh four in sixty-eight
He was a rebel with a dream
In the sights of a man named Ray
On a balcony in the twelve portal
Seven oh five DOA
He took the bullets
Hindsight is never what it seems
Shiny objects and sparkly smiles
Light and shadow on a great big screen
Left us here in twenty-twenty
Rebels without a dream
Now the Gates of Hell are open wide
Dr. Faust is in his prime
Seven billion magic bullets
And a few of the other kind
In hindsight, twenty-twenty
Made a prophet of Shakespeare
He said Hell is empty
And the devils are all here
If we ever want law and order
To remove this wicked fog
We'll drag the lawyers out in the street
And shoot 'em down like dogs
We took the bullets
Nothing is ever what it seems
Shiny objects and sparkly smiles
Light and shadow on a great big screen
Here in twenty-twenty
We're just rebels without a dream
© John Kennan 5-2-20
Scheme | abcbdefa GHIJKL kxmxfdfa GHIJKL xncnlefa GHIJKL xmgx kokoxxxx ghIJkl c |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100010 11010101 11010101 11011101 0111011 11010101 11110110 1101 11010 1110111 10100101 10110111 11101010 100101 0101010101 11011101 11010101 001010 1110100 010111 1010110 1011 11010 1110111 10100101 10110111 11101010 100101 01010111 10110101 01111111 11110101 11010101 00110111 1010000110 10111 11010 1110111 10100101 10110111 11101010 100101 101111101 111011 10101010 00110101 011010 101011 111110 0010111 111011010 1011101 110101001 011111 11010 10110111 10100101 10110111 101010 11100101 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,731 |
Words | 327 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6, 8, 6, 8, 6, 4, 8, 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 61 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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