Analysis of New millennial Ragtime Blues
Greatness moves across the vast American expanse
Continental drifters making gold records
Busking eternal neon street corners
Crooning tales of mountain witches and vengeance
West Virginia coal camp dust
Kicking busted floorboards
Down the hillbilly highway and back
Stringing stacatoed 16th notes
From the southern Appalachian trail
Pine sap Georgia box car tunes
Florida sweaty swamps, South Carolina coastal dunes,
Back up through the Cumberland gap,
Old traditions run deep as mountain springs
That place where, Irish, African-American, and Native American all meet-
Where Elvis learned to stomp his feet,
Jerry Lee to pound the keys,
Rual music and indigenous music, and the pioneer spirit of young post war America built Rock and roll....
Its spirit still lingers today....
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Metre | 1010101010001 0101010101 101010110 10111010010 1010111 10101 10100101 101111 10100101 1110111 1001011010101 11101001 1010111101 111101000100010010011 11011111 1011101 1100010010000110111101001101 11011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 785 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 1 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 321 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
About this poem
Thoughts on the current music scene and the age old traditions upon which it grew.
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