Analysis of The Guitar Pick
It's never been so hard, to play my friend the blues,
It's never been so hard, to play my friend the blues,
Though right beside him I did sit,
I played out all the tunes.
Every day he got much weaker, with pain upon his face,
Every day he got much weaker, with pain upon his face,
I sung the blues with deliverance,
Praying to change his fate.
I let go of my guitar pick, it's in a special place,
I let go of my guitar pick, it's in a special place,
This pick was always with me, but with life it couldn't wait.
This beast they called the cancer, ravaged my dear friend,
This beast they called the cancer, ravaged my dear friend,
His soul and spirit were soon released,
His weakened body came to end.
The bugler played behind us, the soldiers folded the flag,
The bugler played behind us, the soldiers folded the flag,
One by one, we laid our flowers,
For a soldier, my friend, my dad.
I let go of my guitar pick, it's in a special place,
I let go of my guitar pick, it's in a special place,
This pick was always with me, but with life, it couldn't wait.
Scheme | AAxx BBxc BBC DDxd EExx BBC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111111101 110111111101 11011111 111101 100111110110111 100111110110111 110110100 101111 11111011100101 11111011100101 1111111111101 111101010111 111101010111 110100101 11010111 0110110101001 0110110101001 111111010 10101111 11111011100101 11111011100101 1111111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,033 |
Words | 207 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on September 09, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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