Analysis of Bowery Afternoon
Drab discoloration
Of faces, façades, pawn-shops,
Second-hand clothing,
Smoky and fly-blown glass of lunch-rooms,
Odors of rancid life…
Deadly uniformity
Of eyes and windows
Alike devoid of light…
Holes wherein life scratches -
Mangy life
Nosing to the gutter's end…
Show-rooms and mimic pillars
Flaunting out of their gaudy vestibules
Bosoms and posturing thighs…
Over all the Elevated
Droning like a bloated fly.
| Scheme | XAXXB XXXXBX XAX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010 1101111 10110 100111111 101101 100100 11010 010111 101110 101 101011 1101010 10111101 101001 1010100 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 417 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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