Analysis of Alone With Everybody

Charles Bukowski 1920 (Andernach) – 1994 (San Pedro)



the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and the men drink too
much
and nobody finds the
one
but keep
looking
crawling in and out
of beds.
flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
for more than
flesh.
there's no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.

nobody ever finds
the one.

the city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill

nothing else
fills.


Scheme XXXXXXXXABXXXXXAXXXXXXXX XB CCCCC XX
Poetic Form
Metre 011001 01101 010 0101 00101 100101 00111 1 0110 1 11 10 10001 11 110 0100 110 111 1 111 11 1111 10100 1 1101 01 01011 011 011 0101 011 101 1
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 492
Words 93
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 24, 2, 5, 2
Lines Amount 33
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 98
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-born American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and beautiful economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.[4] His work addresses the ordinary lives of rich Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books. more…

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