Analysis of Violin
VIOLIN
by: Elaine C. George
She sleeps in her rosewood bed,
under a blanket of velvet red;
old and alone and forgotten,
she dreams of the love she once had.
Once again she recalls his caress
on the curve of her hips
and her breast
as he moved his bow
on the strings of her soul,
playing her sound
'til his passion was spent.
They traveled the whole world over,
to every city and town;
the maestro, his bow and violin,
bringing each curtain down.
He died in a cry of sweet refrain,
clutching her strings to his heart;
as he fell to the floor in a final encore,
tearing her world apart.
So she sleeps in her rosewood bed,
under a blanket of velvet red;
her strings still filled
with the song of her soul,
etched by the maestro
that loved her
so long ago!
Author's Note: The Rosewood bed is the rosewood Violin case
The blanket of velvet red is the red velvet lining in the Violin case
| Scheme | ax bBxx xxxxcxx deae xfxf bBxcgdg hh |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (37%) Etheree (33%) |
| Metre | 001 10111 110011 100101101 10010010 11101111 10111101 101101 001 11111 101101 1001 111011 11001110 11001001 010110001 101101 110011101 1001111 11110100101 100101 1110011 100101101 0111 101101 11010 110 1101 1010111010011 01011011011010000011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 912 |
| Words | 170 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 7, 4, 4, 7, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 30 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on June 14, 2020
Modified on March 14, 2023
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