Analysis of Ode to a piano



Two hands in practiced grace,
Glide skillfully across the piano's face.
The fingers move as if they dance,
Each in their own disciplined stance.
The keys appear separate in black and white,
But they float as one in musical flight.
Ebony and ivory may be set apart,
Combined they create harmonious art.
From sheet to brain the notes are fed,
Adeptly into chords they're wed.
Eighty eight keys with a common goal,
To realize the dream within your soul.


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 110101 11000100101 01011111 10111001 0101100101 1111101001 100010011101 0110101001 11110111 101111 101110101 110010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 450
Words 90
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 358
Words per stanza (avg) 79

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Submitted by four_2n81 on January 08, 2022

Modified on April 17, 2023

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Henry Louis White

Sang for a living ,(ahem) all my life, wrote a bunch of poetry over the years and lost it all. I took on jobs to subsidize my life, cooking, dry wall, plastering etc. more…

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