Analysis of The New Song
As answers deceive
The questions stand
And dancers leave
To track the sand
Round robin conspiracy
Threatening us all
The letters all lower case
Their finality tall
Butting my head
Inside of the line
“When 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 for a fork
New action will free
What inaction restrains
To once again, once again
Once again drain
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 reveals
What the light needs to win
With seven unsavory
And eight left to roast
The turkey unstuffed
Leaving room for the ghost
So ride away, ride away
Ride away all
The damage inflicted
This hammer a maul
The blood’s in the alleyway
Life beckons on
Death has been slaughtered
—as begins the new song
(Rosemont Pennsylvania: August, 2014)
Scheme | ABABCDXDXXEXXXXXCXXXEXXXXXXXCFBFGDXDGXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001 0101 0101 1101 1100100 10011 0101101 101001 1011 01101 111110 1011 0100111 01001 01001 11101 11011 101001 1101101 1011 111010 1101 11110 11111 010010 11001 11001 101111 1100100 01111 0101 101101 1101101 1011 010010 11001 010010 1101 11110 101011 101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 891 |
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) | 369 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
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