Analysis of Open Chords Played on Steel Strings
You sing . . .
Picking at a guitar
Harmonica resting on your slow breathing chest
Battered lyrics, broken voice
Straining to tell stories few understand, some relate
Only you feel its pain
You are . . .
Steel strings
Of an acoustic guitar
Easily broken, snapped in two
Strummed one too many songs
Bleeding fingers
Callused soul on rusted time
Tuned you are . . .
Forbidden notes
Dancing fingers playing with death
Waltzing on dreams
You are . . .
An instrument of change, sharing pain
Open chords played on steel strings
| Scheme | abcdefBgbhijkblmnBfg |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 11 101001 010010111101 1010101 101110101101 101111 11 11 1101001 10010101 111101 1010 111101 111 1001 10101011 1011 11 110011101 1011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 501 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 13 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 20 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 411 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 94 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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