Analysis of Dream Boogie
Langston Hughes 1902 (Joplin) – 1967 (New York City)
Good morning, daddy!
Ain't you heard
The boogie-woogie rumble
Of a dream deferred?
Listen closely:
You'll hear their feet
Beating out and beating out a —
You think
It's a happy beat?
Listen to it closely:
Ain't you heard
something underneath
like a —
What did I say?
Sure,
I'm happy!
Take it away!
Hey, pop!
Re-bop!
Mop!
| Scheme | aBxb acd xc aBxd e xae fff |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (50%) Etheree (25%) |
| Metre | 11010 111 0101010 10101 1010 1111 10101010 11 10101 101110 111 1001 10 1111 1 110 1101 11 11 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 313 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 2, 4, 1, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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