Analysis of A few of my favorite things
A few of my favorite things
Looking at paintings of Cezanne Rembrandt van Gogh and Rodin
thinking of their lives and of their times
of where and when they painted
of why and of who they where with
These are a few of my favorite things
Listening to music of coplan’s Appalachian spring
Beethoven’s ninth symphony jazz of miles monk colt rain
songs of Dylan chimes of freedom and blowing in the wind
These are a few of my favorite things
Thinking of the past
when Robert Kennedy touched a small black Childs face with a tender
hand and asked if he had eaten that day
and of his speech when he told the crowd king had died and quoted the Greek poet
Aeschylus
even in our sleep pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until in our own despair
against our will comes wisdom
through the grace of god
When Joan Baez in Sarajevo during the surge in bullet proof vest
changed places with a street musician vedran smailovic who plays a cello in
the public square she takes his place and sings amazing grace
When jimmy carter befriends a little boy Mattie J.T. Stepanek who wrote poetry of just peace and a message of hope in his short time of life
Of the first responders who went fearless into the falling towers to save lives
These are a few of my favorite things
When in the wilderness and mountains peaks or lakes and rivers
seeing wildlife in their habitats amongst the swarms of morphing swallows and sunbeams and rainbows the quite springs and moving tides
and gulls in their nests
These are a few of my favorite things
Sitting in a café with a friend or a quiet walk along the shore
talking about books and ideas of the day
of feelings experiences and such things
of creating something of beauty to share with others
These are a few of my favorite things
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111001 1011011111010 101110111 1101110 11011111 1101111001 100110110101 11100111111 11101110010001 1101111001 10101 1101001011111010 1011111011 0111111011110100110 1 100101111001 11110101 01010101 01101110 10111 11010010100101011 11010101011110100 01011111010101 1101001010110110011100111001011011111 10101011100101010111 1101111001 100100010111010 101011001011101001010110101 01011 1101111001 10001101101010101 100110010101 11001000011 10101011011110 1101111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,786 |
Words | 337 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 4, 10, 6, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 205 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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