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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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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