Analysis of The Mojo Within (Blues Poem #13)



The Blues fills my memory,
all emptiness gone

Its Harp laying claim,
my soul to belong

Little Walter cries out
‘that same old somethin’ again

Jimmy Reed to remind us
—of the mojo within

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2019)


Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 0111100 11001 11101 11101 101011 111101 1011011 101001 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 220
Words 38
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 35
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 17, 2019

Modified on March 05, 2023

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