Analysis of Her No. 5
Smooth curved and half-naked,
plump tits bared,
jungle hair loose,
she stood at the piano.
She was the electricity in the room.
It crackled in her inhalation,
trapped in her held breath.
In her exhalation was the promise of the storm.
In the space she occupied,
prophesy.
Her fingertips,
nails the same hue as the sharp black keys,
hovered over her fingerprints for a lone moment,
but a lonely moment only.
She began to play.
Solitary notes at first,
singular and melodic,
each one filled with the potential of a raindrop.
Then music,
first light,
tentative,
suddenly leapt into the suffused air.
A pendant swayed like a pendulum before her tribal-drum heart,
glimmering like a dark teardrop as she played.
Her slender and powerful hands pirouetted along the ivory like a ballerina’s,
one who conducted the music rather than be a disciple to it.
The evidence was left in their wake,
translated with the sacred language of sound enunciated into truth,
incontrovertible and undeniable.
Her very own Beethoven’s Fifth.
A symphony for her ears,
and her soul,
only.
By this song she ascended,
an angel of Creation,
unashamed as Eve nude before the apple.
In her, lives this masterpiece.
Scheme | AXBX XCXXXB XXXD X XEX EXXX XXXX XXFXXXD ACF X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110 111 1011 1110010 1100100001 110000010 10011 000101010101 001110 1 010 101110111 101001010110 10101010 10111 100111 1000010 11110010101 110 11 100 1001010011 0101101000101011 1001011111 01001001101010010010 110100101011001011 010011011 010101010110100011 0010000100 010111 0100101 001 10 1111010 1101010 0111101010 001110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,226 |
Words | 244 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 4, 1, 3, 4, 4, 7, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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