Analysis of Mandolin Player
How could the Mandolin player be so well composed?
How does she climb the scale so well? How can she be exposed
to rough and noisy merriment, while still she plays pell-mell?
Amidst those wise men’s arguments; discordant as a bell
their raucous, rowdy sound, so shrill. It fills St. Patrick's Inn.
She picks a jig and strums the rest. She hears the notes within.
No time her smiling fades; no time the music thins.
She goes full bore, til’ hands are sore with blisters on her skin.
She quits no music here; imbibes the barman’s offered beer;
She strums her husky tune and swills the frothy brew with cheer.
Well-past the midnight hour; past morning’s dawn and dew
she fin’ly lays her Mando’ down, picks up the morning’s brew.
She stands to stretch and find her feet, then smiles a gleeful grin,
hands back the cup the barman gave, takes up her Mandolin.
She nods and strolls right out the door. The night has been sure-slain.
There’ll be no more raucous tunes ‘til evening comes again.
Rhyming Couplets
a ballad
Scheme | AA BB CC DC EE FF CC XX DX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101011101 11110111111101 110101111111 01111100010101 11010111111101 11010101110101 110101110101 11111111110101 111101101101 11010101010111 110110110101 111011110101 11110101110101 1101010111010 11011101011111 1111101110101 101 010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,056 |
Words | 206 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
I played a Mandolin for several years and thought it would be fun to play all night in an Irish Pub sometime. This is a 'tall tale' about me doing just that.
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