Analysis of Blues Speak
Bend that reed,
Stretch that chord,
Split that vowel,
—drive home the word
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)
| Scheme | XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys |
| Metre | 111 111 1110 1101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 110 |
| Words | 17 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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