Analysis of woman on the street
Charles Bukowski 1920 (Andernach) – 1994 (San Pedro)
her shoes themselves
would light my room
like many candles.
she walks like all things
shining on glass,
like all things
that make a difference.
she walks away.
Scheme | XXX AXAX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101 1111 11010 11111 1011 111 110100 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 152 |
Words | 28 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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