Analysis of Abstract, Or Sound Poem



Golliwogs+at+night+beep+upright+as+delighted+blue+steel+bands play+for+guppies+framed+door+chain+mail+link+male+rock stampede us 'n' them Brothers Grimm's+Deutsche Bank a-pier appearing+in+lemon-demon+lollipop+pity+pop+Pop+hopping mad agitprops+and+lollipops+wrapped in cellophane+rip+rap+rap+drip+trip+lipless+plumber+plum++lumber+tumble rough rumble+wicks stacks+o'+leaves+gather+gatling+guns+rat+a+tat+bang+big+bong+gong+long+before+Shaw+shaved+'is pedal to the metal medal peddles snifters of egrets we regret to inform Juan's wonderful wands that we we will ignite all love-shacks on racks upon haystack upon sacks of grain stacks [ of leaves+paddy+whacking sacks of Sachs no sects please We're Radishes Row row row your Kaddishes wearing calligraphic prayer-shawl slow to a crawl slow children ahead sculpted sand-scape after-after a man's gold cape slap flip gilt silt after sky-strafe after skycaps where buffaloes n' turtledoves roam over Bob's Big Is That A Boy with an unmanageable comb-over where speckle-speckles tatterdemalion dandelions cluster? an anatomical aeronautical battalion crème de la crème de menthe broke tiny tarantulas collar-bones in two phases have I by squeezing its little legs to gelatin when its moons skyrocketed over his paramour's pair o' parachutes and found King Canute fluting his All-Fruit boots 'n' paddling his bamboo canoe over the wet cliffs '0 dover dover dover over my echo my echo would you sass catch a wand to find preliminary canaries indicating its word word cage opened far and wide and flung deep to the bat-cave where poor old Robin and his man-slave Alfred dis all but disappeared into the Annuals of Time buddy have you got a march of dime collusion whereupon and whereas my beanpole analysis concludes that Cecily's in  perpetual arm's-length with men in-harm's way time was was time i-i-i-i- was was one roadrunner's immense glass intensity but harry snapper organs is a trice too nice to nuzzle i obsessed over puzzle-puzzle nite-lee over this giant-man-eating fuller-hairbrush-look-out look out a fatally femme pair of black pearly lips puckering all over the countryside screaming breaking windows into countless minuscule pieces all over dads stretched elastic time 'n space trousers just passed through the biggest blocks of salt and peppermint sprays thru-out the inn-tire fifty states its all over in one damn night madame eve and pinch-me-tight one fell overboard who was left a la calla lily west halls of tweezers igniting their ice built up to its freeze-levels in the riotous walls of refrigerator's majorly ice-bound section of I want bits-bits-bits+planted in my ghoulish Hungarian Goulash-ash-ash ashes all over your horny little tangle of eiderdown cilia just flicked in my sink . . .dimes march-a lot- tumbleweeds feed last straw hay hey Hey!+down up around clean machine lotta regatta take back your=filthy+lucre+Dell's-Hell'sBells bring bring bring bling bling wee-wee oui+all+the+weigh+homonym+Patronymic+Midlothian+Zambezi+Zamboni+Maroni+Mahoney+macaroni+come+marionette+my inner boloney in the-miss+err+Mabel+able+tabernacle+barnacles+suite+trot+tram+train+cavort+ gavotte what you got is plenty-o-sweet sweat and nothing to bet uponPlease aid the balustrade in arras colonnade parades the bi-proportional caravans in tan suitcase bag-gage! For nigh it rains frogs upon all the melon collie dog-like cay nines refined upon the sleeting-glass I am laid upon a slab of Trinitarian Augustinian monks I try. Please reply at once to Nanny Aristo-Fanes I sneezed upon his trough Sri John Yawns Oh! BLAST! The cast is died his plenipotentiary's garroted from neck to spleen . . . 'twas nice while it lasted, but 'twas all a folksy dream, weren't it, James. Home, Paddington The Bear's Square just ask Auntie's Maimed again and she will tell you the same, Home, James, and don't spare the horses, Bunbury's Cross. I must've lost the custard pie in my I seem to have forgotten my keys I KNOW I put them there, somewhere can't see a thing without my Phil Spector's Speck-Tar-Cackles . . . Buck-ACK! Buck-ACK! – The Philandering Edward Pilaster the Laundry Canister's planning a fine home cooked meal from scratch. Match that and I will double you for all your trouble in paradise, Horst? Almost-toast roasted over over blends five or six dimensional pensions creating tensions in the end-zone bends red white & blue waltzes salt salt salt peanuts salt peanuts allege that edges collude into red ed rude lewd nude is s-s-s-s-s-s-s hissing red hot hot hot aluminum drapes while-a-wild winds wend ¾ -time 'round the atonal corners of my working writing space space space where only I I I I sigh so free bee-bee feel like heaven's gate is almost opening its door-doors is jar is car is bar-bar Barry's berries forever-ever malevolence argent-agent's magnet is is too for sicks ate it's too late-baby I'm late- 4 my date so I ate-an-alligator-in-its-incubator 'tis too too true 2 B blue blue-blue Twenty two tarragon diagonal-dragons drowning dowsing the koi pond for coins to payee the representative's resentment of all relatives' intrusions upon my Realtors' privacy  . . .


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Characters 5,152
Words 745
Sentences 24
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 1
Lines Amount 1
Letters per line (avg) 4,138
Words per line (avg) 757
Letters per stanza (avg) 4,138
Words per stanza (avg) 757
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Submitted by Bethesda_Bard_6850 on January 05, 2021

Modified on March 30, 2023

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John Joseph Hughes

Born in Bethesda, Maryland at exactly 11:16 a.m. on June 8, 1950. Raised in Wheaton, Maryland until I was in 7th Grade, then moved to Silver Spring, Maryland. I 'm a 70-year-old somewhat physically disabled single male living in Waverly House, a high-rise apartment building in my birthplace, Bethesda, Maryland. I am a brilliant, innovative, ambitious poet with expectations to be a Major 21st Century Poet. more…

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