Analysis of Faces People Love
My brother touches music with his hands.
He slowly shapes the chords with gentle palms
and smoothes the rigid edges. With a nudge
of one brown finger, he imprints himself
in songs of lakes and forests, mountains, stars,
and he is suddenly a part of all
the things that are important. He creates
without a word, his legacy of sound
beginning with a single note. It rings
across the morning stillness of our house
and tells a thousand stories, molding earth
into a happy, tragic heaven for
an instant. Others come together then,
a symphony of possibilities,
my brother smiling, sculpting rhythms in
the images of faces, people, love.
The world will know my brother when he goes
as one would know the passing of a breeze:
one moment cool, refreshed, and filled with hope,
the next, an ache, an emptiness, a loss.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQNRS |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1101010111 1101011101 0101010101 1111010101 0111010101 0111000111 0111010101 0101110011 0101010111 01010101101 0101010101 0101010101 1101010101 010010100 1101010100 0100110101 0111110111 1111010101 1101010111 0111110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 790 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 641 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 143 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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