Analysis of Marlboro Antoinette
Filter, Flavor, Fuck Me Up.
There’s a new woman at work
Who smells just like you:
After every break,
With her, breezes in,
Cloaked in
The undeniable aroma
Of Big Tobacco
And bigger dreams.
The type of stimulant that might say:
‘Add another story to your resume’.
A stench like aspirations
Disguised as leftovers
On the back burner
On our grandparent’s stove
Of a big wooden house.
Found at the last minute
Thus, saved and revived,
Like I wish.
You’re still gone,
As she’s bathed in your cloud,
Unaware of the dimensions she just broke
Within me.
And I miss the smell-
So I don’t ask her if she’s
Trying to quit.
I just let the odor
Take me back to you,
She offered a memory,
So I offer her a smile,
And get back to my work.
Scheme | XABXCCXXD XXXXEXXXXX XXXFXDXEBFXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 1011011 11111 101001 10100 10 00100010 1101 0101 011100111 1010101101 011010 01110 10110 110101 101101 110110 11001 111 111 111011 0110010111 011 01101 1111011 1011 111010 11111 1100100 1110001 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 748 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 10, 12 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 185 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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