Analysis of The Neighborhood
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 |
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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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