Analysis of Jazz Life
Kenneth R. Jenkins 1961 (Augusta, GA)
When Miles blows his horn....
When Miles blows his horn he soothes me
That savage beast within you see
And all of a sudden my life is re-born.
Reshaped, reformed not by physical hands
Or hands rough like a man who's been working
But by invisible means
Or perhaps of what you can stand.
When 'Trane blows his horn
He chases away those bad feelings inside
And all of a sudden once again my life is reborn.
Even when Ella sings her song
Scatting in my ear so sweetly
And that music she brings to me
Can really take me away and do me no wrong.
Every note transposes with every twisty turn
And the sounds get louder in my ear and in my soul,
Then all of sudden the music gets inside of me so bold,
And touches my very soul then it finally burns.
Jazz is like an addict on crack,
It gets inside of you and then
It becomes your very best friend.
Once you go Jazz, you'll never go back!
Once you go Jazz, you'll never go back!
Once you go Jazz, you'll never go back!
Scheme | abba xxxx axa cbbc xxxx dxxDDD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 11111111 11010111 01101011111 0101111001 1111011110 1101001 10111111 11111 11001111001 01101010111111 10110101 1011110 01101111 110110101111 100111100101 0011100110011 111100101011111 0101101111001 11110111 11011101 10111011 111111011 111111011 111111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 958 |
Words | 190 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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