Analysis of Piano Playing
Piano Playing
She's the reason I can never hear a piano playing
without hearing it as if it was playing in the next room.
Near, near to me, close to my heart.
She's what makes me feel, still,
a frisson of fear when I smell beer,
her fear of drunkenness as near to me as if it was my own.
Her thoughts tame mine.
I believe people can be too rich and too thin.
I believe the rich are to be despised and envied simultaneously,
and that to fail your children is to fail utterly.
Songs my mother taught me.
She loved me first and best.
This is the family romance: so they tell us.
Maybe.
Perhaps my mother made love too important,
But how could that be done?
And by whom?
The tinkling notes die away.
The heart and the mind tick over.
The tinkling notes of an old fashioned song
settle on the air.
Fatal, but not serious.
Scheme | AABCDEFGHIIIJKILMBNOPQK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010 101011101001010 011011111100011 11111111 111111 01111111 0111001111111111 0111 101101111011 101011110101001000 0111110111100 111011 111101 110100011111 10 01110111010 111111 011 01001101 01001110 01001111101 10101 1011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 837 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 630 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 160 |
About this poem
This is a childhood memory. My mother had a beautiful voice and she played the piano and sang all through my childhood. I loved listening.
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