Analysis of Crescendo
I woke up to Bach.
Crescendos and decrescendos flooded the crowded room.
My nose wrinkled due to the dust
which softly pedaled down from the ceiling
by the sunlight that crashed through the tiny window in the corner.
Morning had intruded on my escapade through the ancient attic.
Frozen in time and untouched by damp flesh for decades,
the books, records, and boxes which carried so many years,
seemed almost obsolete under the piles of dust and neglect.
I watched my fingers glaze over the open page,
where black and white figures stared coldly out of foreign places.
Their icy eyes, shot with distress, sunk into me,
chilling me to the bone.
I shivered.
These were the people of my blood.
These were the people of my flesh.
They too laughed and smiled and once wrinkled their noses.
Their hopes, their cries, and their fears have become mine.
The dust gently tingled my nose.
I felt a crescendo coming on.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 11111 101100101 11101101 1101011010 101111010100010 1010101110101010 1001001111101 01010101101101 1110100111001 111101100101 110110110111010 110111011011 101101 110 10010111 10010111 111010110110 11110111011 0110111 110010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 888 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 724 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 160 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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