Analysis of To Astrud
A voice that still haunts me
and lives in my dreams
The first time I saw her
a boy of sixteen
She lived just a mile
from where I am now
A treasure so hidden
to whose memory I bow
The Samba and Rio
she took me along
Yet barely a man
making love to her song
My eyes can still close
and return to that beach
where my heart she first captured
—and never released
(The Day Astrud Gilberto Died: June 5, 2023)
| Scheme | XXXX XAXA XBXB XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011111 01011 011110 01101 11101 11111 010110 1110011 010010 11101 11001 101101 11111 001111 1111110 01001 0110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 411 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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