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
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABXC DBXC AXAC DXXD DAXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 543 |
Words | 90 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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