Analysis of The Body Speaks
Merilyn Duckworth 1962 (Arkansas)
As I awake and still very tired, and restless one day.
My brain began to alert everyone saying, wake up! Wake up it say.
The ear began to say, I hear you, still trying to awake.
My eyes began to blink and move, and do a picture take.
The nose began to snorkel,
I need tissue to relieve this sparkle.
The mouth began to open wide and to take a yarn.
And then it said, where are we in a barn.
The neck started to move in one direction and the next.
Shoulders began to scream,
hold up my friend, hold up my friend.
What the devil do you mean?
The arm said pump the breaks.
What since do that make?
The fingers began to utter,
although he had problem with speaking because he stutters.
The chest started to speak alone with a few other parts.
Hello lungs, hello esophagus, and hello my dear friend, the heart.
The stomach began to rumble with loud and different noises.
The hip spoke, what are those strange voices.
The thigh said, you know they call me femur.
The knee whispered what does that mean?
Are you a king? Or are you just a dreamer?
The leg who was still king of weak, from steadying the other parts.
The ankle cried out; you do not know the half of what is in your charts.
Now there were the feet, screaming loud to the rest of the body,
Straighten up, line up so we will not be so shoddy.
That is the end of the body this week.
Follow again about the Body Speak.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEFGHIBJKLMNOJHJLLPPQQ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101101001011 11011011010111111 010111111110101 11011101010101 0101110 111101110 0101110101101 0111111001 01101101010001 100111 11111111 1010111 011101 11111 01001110 1111011001110 01101101101101 01101010000111101 0100111011010010 011111110 0111111110 01101111 11011111010 01111111110101 01011111101111011 110011011011010 1011111111110 1101101011 1001010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,369 |
Words | 271 |
Sentences | 28 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 29 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,056 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 269 |
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