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
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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Submitted by bonzorilla on June 13, 2021

Modified on March 23, 2023

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