Analysis of The New Song
The answers deceive
The questions stand
The dancers leave
To track the sand
Round robin conspiracy
Threatens us all
The letters all lower case
The finality TALL
Butting my head
Inside of the line
Where does it end, Father
Maybe this time
The black and the white of it
The tall and the short
The poisons the same
One knife in the pork
New action may draw
What inaction restrains
What once again, once again
Once again drains
So back to the future
Back to the past
Choose not your weapon
You’ve had your last laugh
The wind’s in the vestibule
New breath in the hymn
Your darkness commands
What the light needs to win
The seven unsavory
The eight still to roast
The turkey unstuffed
Leaving room for the ghost
So ride away, ride away
Ride away all
The damage inflicted
This hammer a mall
The blood’s in the alleyway
Life beckons on
Death has been slaughtered
—as begins the new song
(Rosemont Pennsylvania: August, 2014)
Scheme | ABABCDXDXXEXXXXXXFXFEXXXXXXXCGBGHDXDHXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001 0101 0101 1101 1100100 1011 0101101 001001 1011 01101 111110 1011 0100111 01001 01001 11001 11011 101001 1101101 1011 111010 1101 11110 11111 010010 11001 11001 101111 0100100 01111 0101 101101 1101101 1011 010010 11001 010010 1101 11110 101011 101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 886 |
Words | 167 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 40, 1 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 370 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
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