Analysis of Billy Blue
Billy Blue
Billy Blue,
Your world’s a mess
There’s nothing new
Billy Blue
Billy Blue,
Your sheep are shorn
Your flower’s few
Billy Blue
Billy Blue,
Your time now warps
In shades of grey
Billy Blue
Billy Blue,
That choice you made
To run away…
Billy Blue
Billy Blue,
Your worship hollow
An empty pew
Billy Blue
Billy Blue,
Your time insolvent
Your memories few
Billy Blue
Billy Blue
Last dice to roll
Snake eyes stare back
Billy Blue
Billy Blue,
The reaper knocks
—your fate unlatched
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)
| Scheme | AAxa AAxa AAxb AAcb AAxa AAxa AAxx AAxc b |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 101 1101 1101 101 101 1111 1101 101 101 1111 0111 101 101 1111 1101 101 101 11010 1101 101 101 11010 11001 101 101 1111 1111 101 101 0101 111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 498 |
| Words | 91 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 33 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 46 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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