Analysis of WOMEN AND MEN
LADIES AND MEN
The window box looks down below
To the avenue where young ladies pass
On concrete lanes, next to patches of grass,
In the gilded gold of the summer’s glow.
The apple cart, upon the street dips,
Topples over, and a crimson scent
Of fresh, ripe fruit, so redolent,
Makes the young ladies pucker their lips.
The shopkeepers, the salesmen and the cops
Pretend not to notice when a neckline drops,
Nor to admire the softness of a lady’s arms-
Just as women fake indifference each day
To the sight of muscular charms-
That masculine display.
For the female eye is always hungrier
Than any manly or bestial gaze;
With insatiable lust, they make sure to appear
To ascribe to proper ways
(While they secretly leer
At the menfolk all the nights and days.)
One blond coquette
With her parasol
Looks like a doll
In the luncheonette,
Smiling at a princely squire
Who as a gentlemen
Must return the grin,
Whole, entire.
John Lars Zwerenz
Scheme | X ABBA CDX C EEFGFG H IXIHI DAXXXJJH B |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 1001 01011101 101011101 1011111011 0010110101 010101011 101000101 11111100 101101011 010010001 0111101011 11010101011 11101010011 10111001 110001 101111100 110101101 101001111101 1011101 111001 10110101 111 101 1101 0001 1010101 110100 10101 1010 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 913 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 3, 1, 6, 1, 5, 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
Female lust and male chivalry; Lyric Verse
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Written on September 04, 2015
Submitted by angelabradford2 on October 04, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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