Analysis of Queer Things
Emanuel Carnevali 1897 (Florence) – 1942 (Bologna)
One nostril means latin,
The other means greek.
My legs will be
little steel rods,
which will continue
trotting after
I am dead.
My arms are
two useless limbs
when I stand on my head,
(Which 1 never do).
My mouth, too often open,
will be my despair -
clogged and sputtering
and drivelling, -
when I'll be very old
(which will never be)
I hate my head
My rotting head
which will never fall of itself
like any decent pear.
It has the intention
of flying up to the sky,
but it will always trail in the dust:
eating grime and dirt,
screaming erotic songs,
begging all the world
to enter in it.
Scheme | AB CXDXE XXED AFXBXC EEXFAXXXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110 01011 1111 1011 11010 1010 111 111 1101 111111 1101 1111010 11101 10100 01 111101 11101 1111 1101 11101101 110101 110010 1101101 11111001 10101 100101 10101 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 570 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 5, 4, 6, 11 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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