Analysis of Wondering Why
A captive of his genius
And prisoner of his insight
The Jester played New York
Like a fiddler on the run
The truth always just a step
Ahead or behind his perception
The music caught in between
Like an opera singer’s pause for breath
‘The Times Were A Changing’
—and he was left forever wondering why
(Dallas Texas: June, 2018)
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|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101110 0100111 010111 10100101 011101 011011010 0101001 111010111 010010 01110101001 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 326 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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