Analysis of THE MUSIC ROOM
THE MUSIC ROOM
Moaning reverberates within the halls;
Candles flicker eerily on cold, stone walls.
Behind an old bookshelf souls do plea
Where they are engraved
To be set free.
Yet no one shall be saved
Within these castellated towers
Nor shall they behold the florid, golden bowers
Of the merciful sun -
No - no one.
For within one chamber a piano plays;
Its keys are caressed by ghostly fingers
In the ancient parlor where a melody lingers,
A nebulous hymn of stony grays
Floating on the air to the window's veil.
The musician, once lovely, is now deathly pale.
Why does it seek me, this concerto of gloom
Which fades on the glades beneath the room?
Who is this wraith who wears the face
Of the wife I knew in a happier time
When I would weave my sunlit rhyme
So very very long ago
In the bright, sweet boons of a summery place?
I am haunted by the tune she plays with grace
Now, as then,
Dying on the dales below
On the reedy, dismal glen
Through the dreadful, dark haze of the half opened window….
John L. Zwerenz
Scheme | A BBC DCDEEFF GEEGHH AAIJJKIILKLK B |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (27%) |
Metre | 0101 100100101 10101001111 01111111 11101 1111 111111 011110 111010101010 101001 111 10111000101 1110111010 0010101010010 010011101 101011011 001011011101 11111101011 111010101 11111101 10111001001 1111111 11010101 001111011 11101011111 111 1010101 1010101 1010111011010 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 990 |
Words | 192 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 7, 6, 12, 1 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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