Analysis of Blue Father Yellow Mother
Blue Father Yellow Mother 1966 (Eau Claire Wisconsin)
Deep under a black steel mountain
Fire falls like lava, it burns
Burns
Burns
The mountain trembles
The mountain shakes
A fissure opens from the outside in
Blue father you aren't alone
Can't you feel the yellow streaming in
The pull of gravity
The light of the world
Shine mother shine
Your husband can't speak
Your father doesn't need to
Carrying the weight of the world
It's not too much
It's not the end
He raises his arms to you
His skin drinks you in
Hope is all he needs, he's feed from our sin
Blue father yellow mother
Your land will live again
| Scheme | xaAA axb xbxcxxd cxxdb b xx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11001110 10111011 1 1 0101 0101 0101010110 11011001 111010100 011100 01101 1101 11011 1101011 10001101 1111 1101 1101111 11110 11111111101 1101010 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 565 |
| Words | 117 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 7, 5, 1, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 22 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Written on May 16, 2022
Submitted on May 16, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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