Analysis of Making music

Valiantstar 1961 (Sydney)



Making music can be a bit of a pose.

The fancy instruments all the clothes.

We want to imitate it's the thing to do

But it's not hard to play a tune.

I knew a guy with broken strings had no larynx couldn't sing.

But this man had music in his heart

Played like an angel from stop to start.

An old harmonica could be just the thing,

Or may be some boxes and pieces of string,

A couple of sticks

A drum or two,

Sing your song

Make it new.


Scheme X X A X B C C B B X A X A
Poetic Form
Metre 10101101101 010100101 1111010111 11111101 110111011110101 111110011 111101111 11010011101 11111001011 01011 0111 111 111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 457
Words 114
Sentences 6
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 26
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Written on December 01, 2023

Submitted by myway6119 on December 01, 2023

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