Analysis of Trying To Describe The Essence Of Music
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
As the music
Fills the room,
The beat resounds,
Reverberating
Through the walls
And across the floor.
With each passing moment,
The rhythm
Grows stronger,
Echoing out the door
And into the world beyond.
The river
With it's eternal cheer beckons,
Its waters sparkling
In the light of the sun.
See it flow
Effortlessly
Like a breeze,
And for all it's value,
A celebration
Of life
And all its mysteries.
I sought
The echo
In the labyrinthine halls,
Losing myself
In the maze
Of endless possibility.
It is there
That the Lord
Can be found,
Nourishing all
Who come to Him.
Or so I've heard.
But I don't believe in that.
I saw it flow
Effortlessly
Like a stream of water
Among the weeds,
Bounding
Over the earth
And through
The underbrush,
Flowing
Down
Through the caves,
Winding its way
Through the long walks
That lovers take
In the evening
Through the forest,
Singling a song
Of freedom
In the breeze.
Scheme | xxabacxdecx eabfgHaifxa xgaxahxxxxxxx gHeabxixbxaxaxbxxda |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010 101 011 0100 101 00101 111010 010 110 100101 0010101 010 11010110 11010 001101 111 1000 101 011110 0010 11 011100 11 010 00011 101 001 1100100 111 101 111 1001 1111 1111 1110101 1111 1000 101110 0101 10 1001 01 010 10 1 101 1011 1011 1101 0010 1010 10001 110 001 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 940 |
Words | 211 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 11, 13, 19 |
Lines Amount | 54 |
Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 178 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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