Analysis of Swans
William Goresko 1951 (Philadelphia, PA) – 2008 (Willow Grove, PA)
Let us gather our tears in musty barrels,
Juice crushed from fruit of old vines,
To bottle, lay down in cool, dark places,
And when it becomes a supple potion,
Redolent with fragrance of violets and oak,
Fill our glasses, raise them together,
And bathed in the glow of their burgundy lenses,
Drink.
Dropping everything
We will soar across turgid skies,
Swans, high above the slumbering trees,
Journeying to a land of fair wind and calm sea
Where we can dance on the soft sand
Locked in embrace, heads thrown back,
Burning in the light of the moon
And a million stars.
Scheme | ABCDEFCGHIJKLMNO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010101010 1111111 1101101110 0110101010 100110110001 1101011010 010011110010 1 1010 11101101 110101001 100101111011 11111011 1001111 10001101 00101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 565 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 449 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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