Analysis of The Buzz
Chris Pearson 1977 (Winnipeg)
Thought curls along neuron coil
Thrall to the wire of self-excited circuit
Current is path of perception flash
Energy is power is burn is light
Sparks in the mind to move at night
Bestowal of motion is exchange
Give and take and shuffle
Potential to charge to meet to fight
To resolve to balance to agree to keep
To lose to gain to share the same
Nothing ventured is nothing gained
Wind whirring thought in orbit strands
Halo motion noose and knot to tie
And pull hard the bindings tight
Choke strangle release and spin
Bruises spill purple the blue and red
Lack of oxygen starves the head
Anything is better than being dead
Let it be to feel to hurt to cut to bleed
To surrender to sleep to dream to feed
To see to taste to let it go to waste
Swirl and tease and please and hate
Dance and cry and drink and spit
Hold and kiss and love every bit
This and that and everything
I is you is we is them is us
Air is life is in-between
Earth is ash is dust is must
Where one plus two is three
Which one of you is me?
Scheme | ABCDDEFDGHIJKDLMMMNNOPQQRSTUVV |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 110101101010 101110101 1001101111 10011111 1110101 101010 010111111 10111010111 11111101 10101101 11010101 101010111 011011 1100101 101100101 11100101 101101101 11111111111 1010111111 1111111111 1010101 1010101 101011001 101010 111111111 1111001 1111111 111111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 981 |
Words | 202 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 30 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 806 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 202 |
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Submitted on March 20, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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