Analysis of dance the past
Brian Goddard 1966 (Canada)
Dance the past, dared the dangerous dream,
(along that pathway we have been
on a day unlike the others
when and where the sun king
wore the ribbons of the moon)
dance, at last, for I have not been
so piteously glorified that I shall be
a rat amidst your
(On a day unlike the others
I wound the threads of wool
upon the spool, dyed the wool,
knit you your favorite,
boxer shorts,
and removed them from your body)
Yours is a shallow hole
to fall into.
Dream the dangerous dare, do the deed,
tear the wind from your thoughts and proceed.
Exist, affect, alert the senses –
mount your offensive,
slip past my defenses.
Scheme | x aBxx a c x Bddxxc xx ee xxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101001 0111111 10101010 101011 1010101 11111111 11101111 01011 10101010 110111 0101101 111100 101 00111110 110101 1101 101001101 101111001 010101010 11010 111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 622 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 1, 1, 1, 6, 2, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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