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.
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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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