Analysis of She said she'd always be a dancer
JM Calonico 1943 (San Francisco, CA)
Here you're going out on the stage of your life And you must be· thinking,
All of a sudden it's little itsy-bitsy, unimportant, can't dance, gum-poppin’ ballerina bitch, My-God-It's-so-beautiful-I-hope-I-don't-blow-it Me. Out on that huge stage with all those eyes fixed on Me!"
How impotent How powerless
How weak, like you're filled with cream-of-wheat you must feel.
How frightened you must be at the thought of that.
And really, the more frightened now the better?
It means you're investing a lot in what you are doing,
And it shows how much love you will exude when you actually perform.
| Scheme | A X X X X X A X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101101111011110 11010110101000101111010111111001111111111111111111 11001100 111111111111 11011110111 01001101010 11101001011110 01111111011110001 |
| Characters | 623 |
| Words | 117 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 57 |
| Words per line (avg) | 12 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
About this poem
This is a "Heartsong," written during an ill-fated love affair that we thought was a romance.
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