Analysis of Tenderloin Blues
Nighttime city buses,
passengers bathed in
fluorescent gloom
sit silent,
every corner and crack illuminated,
no one casting a shadow--like the undead
prowling an ancient Carpathian castle.
There were two worlds--worlds apart--
the stark,
bright realism
of the interior
and the impressionist outside
where colored lights
bore through the darkness,
smearing and dripping,
splotching and streaming
onto a dynamic canvas of night.
The bus stops
to take on more sad ghosts.
Scheme | ABCDEDFGHIJKLMNNOPQ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 10010 101 110 10010010100 111001101 10110110 1011101 01 1100 100100 00010011 1101 11010 10010 1010 1000101011 011 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 450 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 383 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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