Analysis of Heaven Waits (Blues Poem #15)
Counting spaces between the notes,
the music came alive
The melody deepened, the band on fire,
all bees have left the hive
Breathing in one fast refrain,
my lungs too full to stop
An Angel melts his pearl baton,
the Sirens blazing hot
New sounds created, harp destroyed,
the clouds all push apart
As heaven waits for one last riff,
—to claim my beating heart
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10100101 010101 01001001110 111101 1001101 111111 11011101 010101 11010101 011101 11011111 111101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 400 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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