Analysis of Radio Man
Back in the Summer of eighty five thank God I was still alive
music was filling the streets as I chilled by the strip
here's the trip many girls were dressed with flames both were not ashamed
the innocence of the day as I raged in a cage
there was folks with love swinging on its sod
there he stood the radio man with stereo in his hand
would rap to his music calling it sonic fusion cause he knew what he was doing
Break dance pants and folks playing hacky sack gave me a heart attack
those were the days getting lost in a purple haze better to act your age
yet for the radio man he had a plan
started block parties to raise money for his ailing uncle Freddie who had cancer
Radio was quite a dancer and fine tuned romancer on the village block he was the king
then one day many had need to pray Radio man went away to a mental facility
folks got word and thought it was absurd
there was no one else to entertain many grew insane
until a little time had passed then the Radio man was back
free styling cause he knew what he was doing
back on the mic never giving up on the fight
he was the center of attention with his brand new invention
a beat box mixer on his radio taking him places he needed to go
bust up the beat to promote the tempo it was Radio the king with his flow
always cracking jokes and smiling cause he had fish for frying no he ain't lying
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001011011111101 1011001111101 101101011110101 0100101111001 1111110111 1110101110011 111110101101011111110 111011011110101 100110100101101111 1101011101 101101110111010101110 10110100111101011101 11110111110110110100100 111011101 1111110110101 010101111010111 11011111110 110110101101 1101010101111010 0111011101011011011 110110101111001111 1101010111111011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,337 |
Words | 273 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 49 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,084 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 273 |
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