Analysis of Avalon
Warbard 1967 (Los Angeles)
Oh Avalon, you still live on,
In the writings of mankind,
Though the fears of man have left your land,
In the past so far behind.
This magic land of forest stands,
In the charge of Oberon,
Where real may seem, what you can dream,
Where the Celtic gods live on.
From times along, you were the song,
That many minstrels sing,
Where the faeries roam, and the hidden home,
Of Arthur, the returning king.
In ancient lores, your hidden doors,
Were open to mortal kind,
But the ideas of man and his confused plan,
To rid you left him blind.
Human vision, brings division,
And leaves man in discord,
And in his mind, he seeks to find,
An answer through a sword.
But many here do see things clear,
That your mysterious land’s a treasure,
That the knowledge there within your care,
Is beyond our mortal measures.
As ignorance dies, our dreams they cry,
That you be with us evermore,
To open your ways, and forever stay,
As you did in ancient lores.
Oh Avalon, you still live on,
In the dreams of all mankind,
So open your doors to us once more,
And leave the past behind.
Scheme | Abxb caxa xdxd xbxb xebe xxxx xfxc Abfb |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1101111 0010111 101111111 0011101 11011101 001110 11111111 1010111 11011001 110101 101100101 11000101 01011101 0101101 100101101011 111111 10101010 011010 00111111 110101 11011111 1101001010 101010111 101101010 1100110111 1111110 1101100101 1110101 1101111 0011111 110111111 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,032 |
Words | 199 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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