Analysis of Evolution
Quo Vadis, the movie, the score, the soundtrack--
a 45 rpm played on a low-tech turntable,
one-half step above a windup Victrola . . .
Ah, my first hearing of the mystery of the symphonic!
There was a world larger than Lightning Hopkins,
Muddy Waters, and Minnie Pearl.
Quo Vadis, how deeply melancholy,
the perfect harmony for my dark-woods mood--
(all the world's a funeral parlor
beneath the facade of blue skies and
cotton candy clouds).
O Rome! How I longed for you,
I, a boy in rags, run-over shoes, crusty knees,
ashen skin and growling stomach.
O Arkansas! Cradle of my ignorance,
I ruled your woods, and valleys, and hills.
I, clown-prince, adorned with wooly hair
and clothed with the robe of Africa.
Scheme | ABBCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110100101 01111101110 11101011 111101010010010 11011011010 10100101 11110100 00110011111 101010010 010011110 10101 1111111 101011101101 10101010 1101011100 111101001 111011101 011011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 693 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 545 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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