Analysis of Rock & Roll (Blues Poem #2)



Papa Blues
  and Momma Jazz

But ain’t that baby
  —Rock and Roll

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)


Scheme XX XX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (80%)
Cinquain  (40%)
Metre 101 0101 11110 101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 100
Words 16
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 25
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 16, 2018

Modified on March 05, 2023

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