Analysis of Written for a Musician
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
Hungry for music with a desperate hunger
I prowled abroad, I threaded through the town;
The evening crowd was clamoring and drinking,
Vulgar and pitiful--my heart bowed down--
Till I remembered duller hours made noble
By strangers clad in some suprising grace.
Wait, wait my soul, your music comes ere midnight
Appearing in some unexpected place
With quivering lips, and gleaming, moonlit face.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10110101010 1101110101 01011100010 1001001111 110101010110 11010111 1111110111 010010101 1100101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 402 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 319 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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