Blues
Blues
The very day Bob Dylan dies,
princes will turn into toads,
and all blacks are dyed in white.
The moon girds its armor loads.
Bourbon will get the taste of mud,
Whores will grimly close their lips.
Ponytails will all be cut.
Even the Eiffel tower flips.
What they sell, is exploding cigars.
The Ice Age gets triggered yet.
Women bear monkeys from Mars.
Plenty lampoons on the internet.
They’re smashing all guitars,
no longer for sale they’ll be dead.
For Roland Vancampenhout
About this poem
Translation by Ludy Bührs of a poem in Dutch at the request of the author, who, in his young years owner of a blues café, has great knowledge of music.
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Submitted by ludy_b on July 11, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XABA XCXC DED EDX B |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 473 |
Words | 84 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3, 1 |
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