Blue Father Yellow Mother
Blue Father Yellow Mother 1966 (Eau Claire Wisconsin)
Deep under a black steel mountain
Fire falls like lava, it burns
Burns
Burns
The mountain trembles
The mountain shakes
A fissure opens from the outside in
Blue father you aren't alone
Can't you feel the yellow streaming in
The pull of gravity
The light of the world
Shine mother shine
Your husband can't speak
Your father doesn't need to
Carrying the weight of the world
It's not too much
It's not the end
He raises his arms to you
His skin drinks you in
Hope is all he needs, he's feed from our sin
Blue father yellow mother
Your land will live again
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Written on May 16, 2022
Submitted on May 16, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | xaAA axb xbxcxxd cxxdb b xx |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 565 |
Words | 117 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 7, 5, 1, 2 |
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