Analysis of Song # 37

Luis A. Estable 1958 (Oriente, Cuba)

Lyric
I went to the garden
Full of flowers red.
It was in my head
That I was in heaven.

There were naked girls
Playing happy games,
And I thought them pearls.
My heart was in flames.

Scheme ABBA CDCD
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 111010 11101 11011 111010 10101 10101 01111 11101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 177
Words 41
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 68
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Luis A. Estable

Luis A. Estable, poet for more than twenty years. Single, no children; originally from Cuba. Writes poems in several styles: sonnets, songs, haikus, children's verses, free style verse and more. Has published three books of poetry: " Eighty-Three Sonnets, Book One," Religious, Thirty Sonnets," "My Mind Simply Saying. All of them available on Amazon books. Has degrees from SFCC and EWU. Lives in Spokane, WA. Thinks that poetry is the most compact and beautiful expression known to man, and that a poem never reaches perfection; the work goes one and this is a good advice to keep, especially for young poets. more…

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