Analysis of Its Scar Now Yours To Love (Blues Poem #12)
"You must earn the right
to sing the blues
"No high school chorus,
the hurt you choose"
To wrestle with your demons,
no safety net in place
Often times it’s zero-sum,
a blood trail left to trace
You hum those Irish ditties,
or sing like Junior Wells
When you want those notes to fly,
you usher them through hell
In the end it may not matter,
the ending seldom does
What counts is how you stitch that wound,
—its scar now yours to love
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 1101 11110 0111 1101110 110101 1011101 011111 1111010 111101 1111111 110111 00111110 010101 11111111 111111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 492 |
| Words | 90 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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