Analysis of Voodoo Night

Leonid Rozumenko 1961 (Kyiv)

I like the taste of your mushrooms.
How would you get a prescription?
It’s hard to mention all the roots
But one was thriller fiction.

I was a little wistful,
You were a little tight.
It was a very peaceful
And quiet Voodoo Night.

When people are running like crazy
And you are the sober object, -
There is maybe something amazing,
That you, through your nap, didn’t detect.

When Voodoo night dissolves the view
You just may guess about Sunup.
If Fortune shows back-side to you, -
Just be a man and join her up!

Scheme XAXA BCBC XDXD EFEF
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11011110 11110010 11110101 1111010 1101010 100101 1101010 01011 110110110 01101010 111010010 11111101 1110101 11110110 11011111 11010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 522
Words 110
Sentences 8
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 99
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Written on 2001

Submitted by leorozum on November 05, 2021

Modified by leorozum on November 10, 2021

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Leonid Rozumenko

Someone in your domain asks me to send a letter about myself. My pleasure - favorite topic. Who am I? Can’t keep a secret - athletic, open-minded, and generous, with a wide scope, love for women, good company. With love for science and to write something everlasting, which isn’t computer programming anymore. I was born in gorgeous Kyiv (Ukraine) more than 35 years ago, lived in the USA for longer than 4 years and my language is still in progress. My poetry is also a colorful picture of the unseeing battle between “yours truly” and English grammar. My Ukrainian or Russian accent has two unreliable reasons – it’s “for fun” and “hard to get rid of”. The meaning of my last name “Rozumenko” in Ukrainian is very close to “jaba-jaba a dada” in “Crocodile Dundee II”. I have several other weaknesses but I introduce them only to my closest friends. Yours truly, Leo Rozumenko more…

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