Analysis of 'The Older The Violin ...'
Morphing through
the decades
leaning on our pasts
Brian, Paul, Van, and I
still living
loose and fast
The words have
deeper meaning
as melodies refrain
The end in view
but out of sight
—the magic preordained
(Saint David’s Pennsylvania: January, 2024)
| Scheme | AXX XBX XBX AXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 001 101101 101101 110 101 011 1010 110001 0101 1111 01001 110010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 261 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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