Analysis of Powderfinger
Aging
like the finest wine
his music vintage gold
Sugar Mountain
the Harvest Moon
a Southern Man to scold
The lyrics haunting
feelings blessed
an Old Man at his knee
From Crazy Horse
to Woodstock
—his message sets us free
(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)
| Scheme | AXBXXBAXCXXC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10 10101 110101 1010 0101 010111 01010 101 111111 1101 11 110111 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 255 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on November 22, 2023
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on November 22, 2023
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