Analysis of The Symphony
O, to dance on the piano keys barefoot
Feel cold skin erupt against your touch
Black keys between your toes,
her hair in your eyes
An unrestrained smattering of unholy notes
The blissful clutches of the vacuous harpsichord
Waiting for the spasms in the walls of flesh
In the fervor of the instrument, a warm storm
pours on the festival of sound raging beneath
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (33%) |
| Metre | 1111001011 111010111 110111 01011 10110010101 010101010010 10101000111 001010100011 110100111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 351 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 293 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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