Analysis of Driving Your Malady Away



Driving Your Malady Away

From both your eyes, from your nostrils,
From both your ears and from your chin
Forth from your heart and mind
And from your tongue
I’ll drive your malady away

From what is voided within,
From strands of your hair
And from tip of your nails,
From all yourself top to toe
I’ll drive your malady away

Ill thoughts and nightmares
Will no longer visit you
Even in the darkest of nights
Sleep with the silver moon
Rise with the burning sun

Now spread your wings
And fly with the birds
Under the bluest of the skies
Croon in the early mornings
And take a man’s blues away

Flow with the rivers
And gather the streams
Down from the hills and mountains
Let flowery grass spring up
Let there be lakes with lotus blooms

Drift with the clouds
And the blowing wind
Without a destination
To the faraway deserts
And fill up the oasis


Scheme a xbcxA bxxxA xxxxd exxea xxxxx xcdxx
Poetic Form
Metre 10110001 11111110 11110111 111101 0111 11110001 1111001 11111 011111 1101111 11110001 1101 1110101 10001011 110101 110101 1111 01101 10010101 1001010 0101101 11010 01001 1101010 1100111 11111101 1101 00101 010010 1010110 0110010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 819
Words 158
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on March 08, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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