Analysis of The Sound Of Blue
Charles Edward York 1966 (Saigon, Vietnam)
The Sound Of Blue
The sound of blue echoes with grief
An injured soul of the unexpected
Suffers trauma no one can afford
For no one invites pain
Anymore than bare feet
Embraces fire or burning asphalt.
Scars have a way of wearing out
The memories of flesh and bone
Eating emotions raw
They consume genuine joy
Ruining the remains by running
Sanity beneath a runaway train.
The funeral dirge of the mind drowns
Open wounds with salt and sulfur
Torturing the afflicted with troubles
No one hears or seems willing to
The sound of blue echoes the sore
As a muzzle that deafens the roar.
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Scheme | A XXXBXX XXXXXB XCXADD XC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111 01111011 110110010 101011101 111011 01111 010101101 11011101 01001101 100101 1011001 100001110 100010101 010011011 10111010 1000010110 11111101 01111001 10101101 101101 111110111101100010101010010111111010100100010110010100101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 848 |
Words | 159 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 6, 2 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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