Analysis of The day the music died



Strumming fingers
Tangle, crumble, wallow
 To broken strides of overtures
Amid a drowning heart

Where begins a resonation
A bitter coming taste to sorrow
Reverberations escaping
Stray off and depart

Into echoes of destined hushes
Reaching out for want
Of faring morrows
And melancholy enters to play its part

One by one
Tear drops falling pick and “plunk”
A melody that saturates lyrics out
“We’ve become undone”

Rupturing a soul within this now
Of unscheduled portrait hells
Where the notes jump to plunge
Into realization of ends they kill themselves


Scheme ABXC DBXC AXAC DXXD DAXX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (30%)
Etheree  (25%)
Quatrain  (20%)
Metre 1010 101010 1101110 010101 10101 010101110 0010010 11001 01101101 10111 1101 0100101111 111 1110101 010011101 10101 100010111 1010101 101111 011010111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 543
Words 90
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 91
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Nighttiger

A fortyish native born all American man. Married twice and for the last time. I have four children; Three daughters and one son that are all over the age of eighteen. I also have two grandchildren; one three years old and one nine months old. Inspired by God, tragedy, life's experiences and then a fairy tale love. I never intentionally set out to write poetry, but "She" inspired me. "She" meaning the love of my life. That love is a passion that after thirteen years still grows stronger each and every day. It eventually had to be put into writing. As I wrote poetry to her, she encouraged me to approach other subjects. Doing so brought me to discover that poetry could wash away the bitter tastes of life (suicide, cancer, and divorce) that were still living like demons inside me. So when poetic therapy brought those impish fiends to a stalemate, I began to experiment more. Creating fictional characters and situations within my works. The support of this online community has inspired me even further to continue to hone my writing skills giving the readers the best that I can offer. Thanks to all you out there in Lulu land. more…

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