'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work.
“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.”
“At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.”