Analysis of Lazy Susan Blues
Round and round,
went the memories of pain
As the joy slid off,
in an unending refrain
Round and round,
the promises spun
And one by one,
into lies they’ve become
Round and round
my heart was passed by
Your eyes looking distant,
mine alone left to cry
Round and round,
my life came and went
In blind revolution,
—more borrowed than lent
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)
Scheme | Ab xb Ac cx Ad xd Ae ce x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 1010011 10111 0101001 101 01001 0111 011101 101 11111 111010 101111 101 11101 01010 1111 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 377 |
Words | 67 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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