Analysis of The Neighborhood

Steph End 1996 (New york)



Maybe I’m the neighborhood
 The 7AM kids that kick rocks to kill time while waiting for the bus
   And the parents behind them too
The same ones that rush to a job that barely knows they exist
   Just for a whiff of pay right before bills
    The highnoon drinker popped and perked up ready to sing pop classics during highway car karaoke
    The regular man under the eyes of pigs with expectations of him being blocked up ready to be locked up
   And the honeymoon lovers during their first fight with flowers in hand to queue closure
      These fractions of fractions make up me
    Microbodies called everybody move through arteries called avenues
    Busy bodies with no time for wills move and move on only ever motioning more bodies to do the same
   The neighborhood stays
Houses hunkered down to hold histories of previous times
   Open doors act as open portals to moments that can only be described by “you just had to be there”
   So I’ll be there
And stay here
   Even if not by choice
   Maybe I’m the neighborhood


Scheme AbcdefghfijklmmnoA
Poetic Form
Metre 101010 011111111110101 00100111 011111011101101 1101111011 0110101110111101011010 010011001111010111011101111 00101010111110011110 110110111 1110011100110 101011111101110101001101101 0101 101011110011001 10111101011011101011111111 1111 011 101111 101010
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,046
Words 186
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 44
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 798
Words per stanza (avg) 180

About this poem

Hey I’m Steph End and this is my piece titled “the neighborhood”. Here I explore the mundaneness of everyday life and the strange interconnectedness that comes with it when looking at a community as a whole.

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Written on January 11, 2024

Submitted by Theend.steph on January 22, 2024

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Steph End

Steph End is a Buffalo,NY creative known for both his impressionist visual art and blend of both free verde and traditional poetry creating a unique style that hopes to invoke the spirit of thought. more…

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