Analysis of A Shreveport State Of Mind
Dark skies follow you everywhere
Black is the color of life
In this den of theives
Red is the spectrum of night
If you're so fair
Then why am I so scared of your delights?
I lost my mind in Shreveport
Sleeping through the Sycamore silence
My dreams speak to me here
Under the shaded fields of Oak and Pine
This broken haze awakens every fear
How will escape tonight?
This mist covers your eerie heart
As the moss sparkles in the early morning shine
The dew srops from Southern flowers
When the Earth breaks beauty from Heaven's vine
Why is it so hard to leave Louisiana?
After Winter turns to Spring
Summer follows swiftly
As fast as the sun fades
The Autumn Fall gently goes away
Before the Hummingbirds sings
You'll find yourself in New Orleans
Lost in space in so many ways
Wondering
How does anyone evr get paid?
Lose your soul on that old brick road
To the Voodoo Queen on "Rampart Street"
that wicked drink will steal your home
If "Morris Bart" takes all your money with his double speak
They make all the weather change
So why are you so dead to me?
Kill your attitude on "Bourbon Street"
With a Shreveport shot of Whiskey
Drinking is all you think about
When you have to live this deep in the South
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110110 1101011 01111 1101011 1111 1111111101 111101 10101010 111111 1001011101 11010101001 110101 11101101 101100010101 01111010 1011101101 11111110010 1010111 101010 111011 010110101 010101 110101100 10101101 100 1110111 11111111 1011111 11011111 11011111011101 1110101 11111111 11101101 1011110 10111101 1111111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,171 |
Words | 226 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 5, 9, 6, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on January 05, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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