Analysis of The Feminist
zebra black 1947 (ny)
She hated lewd offers
but thought, as she fled rationality
*Taboo and Transgression reflect two contradictory urges*
there is a deficiency
a feeling as if
dormice gnawed on her tender heart
unthreading her very being
*The taboo would forbid
the transgression but the fascination compels it"*
in the old school
fearless foul mouthed men
with big shoulders and hero's chests
knew how to take a woman
*Please Master
Please master can I touch your cheek
please master can I kneel at your feet*
so she would lose herself
caring for nothing but
her spilling
clitoral incandescence
into kingdom come
*mystery woman
with a cock in hand
plays the piccolo
in a hot swing band*
out of the question
was dissolute lust
its quivering equivocations
of undoing and redoing
in a torment of feeling,
as if blood thirsty
disavowing, yet starved for love
like a cry of the void
*her throat
a spiral armed galaxy
her heart and cunt
hounded moons*
Scheme | AB X BXXC XX XXXD XXX XXCAX DEXE DXACCBXX XBXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110 111110100 010010011010010 1100100 01011 1110101 101010 001101 001010010011 0011 10111 11100101 1111010 110 11011111 110111111 111101 101101 010 11 01101 10010 10101 1010 00111 11010 111 11001 10100010 001110 11110 00101111 101101 01 0101100 0101 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 915 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 4, 2, 4, 3, 5, 4, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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