Analysis of Playing Piano



Are these hands really mine, that flow
Like heated honey over wood
And ivory, sounding high and low,
Their will their own, as if they could

Play on all day? As tips of fingers
Stroke the keys, mellifluous,
The music rises, crests and lingers
In mind's ear, a gift to us,

The empty room and me, a swirl
Of color bursting from these few
Small chips of black and white, a world
Of harmony, where all is new,

Where hands create life's serenade
Until its last notes finally fade.


Scheme ABAB CCCX XDXD EE
Poetic Form
Metre 11110111 11010101 010010101 11111111 111111110 1011 010101010 0110111 01010101 11010111 11110101 11001111 1101101 011111001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 461
Words 89
Sentences 2
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 92
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on April 17, 2023

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