Analysis of Dancing Christmas Tree Rows
Ronald-Bunch 1982 (Grand Rapids)
Dancing down a narrow path,
A shaft.
To create,
To laugh,
To shout for joy,
To swing your arms
To the left
and to the right.
To not mock others
Of a smaller height,
And not those in plight,
But to dance
A dance
That makes everything alright.
To be in sight
Without fright.
To dance all the way
Through the night.
Head to toes
And Ears to nose.
I danced down
The cathedral rows.
I danced with those
Who dance for clothes.
To the homeless
I offer a dance
And a loving glance,
To feed those
Who needs clothes?
I offer them charity
Under dancing Christmas tree rows.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIHHJJHHHKHLLMLLNOJJLNPL |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101 01 101 11 1111 1111 101 0101 11110 10101 01101 111 01 11101 1101 011 11101 101 111 0111 111 00101 1111 1111 1010 11001 00101 111 111 1101100 10101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 532 |
| Words | 109 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 31 |
| Lines Amount | 31 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 437 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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