Analysis of Mightnight Drive Down I-35
Midnight drive down I-35 It's more than just a title. It's more than a playlist.
It's more than a poem.
I took a drive up I-35 and met Kansas. We said "goodbye" just as quickly as we'd said "hello."
I took a drive down I-35 and met Texas. It was familiar territory though this time, it was different —it didn't feel like home. I felt like an alien or an overstepping older sister, just checking in after the pandemic to see if my home state was still indeed extant.
So, then I got to thinking about the playlist — the one I started forever ago and had nothing to show for it — what would it sound like? What would that kind of playlist feel like? What would a midnight drive down I-35 feel like?
I had had firsthand experience with that. But I still felt like I couldn't answer. I fell back on my old reliables (and newly-aquired reliables) because it was easy and familiar.
What do you put in a "midnight drive down I-35" playlist?
Can you capture a life's worth of emotions and thoughts in a single playlist? Because, I feel as if that's what I have to show from this trip. I beelined it north to clear my head but things seem more confusing than ever.
Scheme | ABCADEAE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111101011101 111010 1101110110111111011101 1101110110110101001111110011011111111001110010101100100010111111110110 111111001010111001001011011111111111111111110111111 1110101001111111110101111111010110111100010 11110011111 111001110100100101011111111111111111111111111010110 |
Characters | 1,160 |
Words | 227 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 111 |
Words per line (avg) | 28 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 888 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 220 |
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Written on 2021
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 06, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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