Analysis of This Two Shall Step
Janet w Mulligan 1984 (California)
Just talk to me
Let it all out please
No matter my stance
We are doing a dance
Now What you say
And when you stay
I hear those words
I heed those words
I’ll speak my truth
But you gotta hear me out without turning me loose.
It’s like hanging me out to dry
When my words just go flying by
Don’t do that to me, ‘cause
You won’t find me on my knees
Trying to breath
Just for you to be pleased
Dance with me
Come on over and
Dance with me
Let’s free our souls
Let’s free ourselves
Be like the momentary lapse of reason
An album of psychedelic social treason
Partake with me
Now that’s something I can believe in
I don’t want to do it alone
I won’t be alone
I got a huge home
Rooms to fill
Where people can sleep
Cause we all are reaching so deep
Making it happen
We gotta give the dance
Just another chance
Trust and believe
We were meant to succeed
So come dance with me
I wanna hear those words
I want to fight the urge
Tell me your story
And shoot me straight
Cause you know I’ll just lock the gate
Got too many places to be and things to see
Wasting my time ain’t apart of this rhythm
Come talk to me
What’s up those sleeves ?
You trying to be a thief
That outfit doesn’t suit you so well
But I won’t kiss and tell
Stop sizing me up
I am not your pup
Just move your feet
You don’t even need to speak
Yeah Dance with me
Come on over
A little closer to me
Choose to move those feet
Your toes be all tied up in knots
That ain’t hot— it’s just not
Be like the momentary lapse of reason
An album of psychedelic social treason
Just be that something that I can finally start to believe in again….
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 11111 11011 111001 1111 0111 1111 1111 1111 1110111011011 11101111 11111101 111111 1111111 1011 111111 111 11100 111 11101 11001 1101001110 11010101010 0111 111011010 11111101 11101 11011 111 11011 11111011 10110 110101 10101 1001 101101 11111 110111 111101 11110 0111 11111101 111010110111 10111011110 1111 0111 1101101 1111111 111101 11011 11111 1111 1110111 1111 1110 0101011 11111 11111101 111111 1101001110 11010101010 111101111001101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,658 |
Words | 355 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 62 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Written on October 17, 2022
Submitted by jewelsmulligan on October 17, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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