Analysis of A Melody Unsung
Can you be distracted by the critic
or the public acclaim
Can you see through the fire
and renew all that’s burned
Can you look past the signposts
and those messages fixed
Can your heart stay undamaged
as the world tempts your soul
Can you run through loud voices
with yours still unspoken
Can you make it to tomorrow
without leaving today
Can you give love to those hateful
with vengeance recalled
Can you carry your grandfather’s words
into the land of the unborn
Can you hang up your spear
inside the enemy camp
Can you live to see the beginning
and the end die at last
Can your voice remain pure
neither bartered nor loaned
Can you listen through the smoke
—for a melody unsung
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX XX XX AX XX XX XX XX XX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (24%) |
| Metre | 1110101010 101001 1111010 001111 111101 011001 111110 101111 1111110 111010 1111101 011001 11111110 11001 11101101 01011011 111111 0101001 111110010 001111 111011 101011 1110101 1010001 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 726 |
| Words | 130 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 13 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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