Analysis of "she plays with me"
At the Roxy she blows her horn,
it's running down like mud.
She's popping off canopy caps,
streams fly all over like snakes from a jar.
In the essence of her hands she blows to understand.
In the underground that flows from her horn.
There is a fleeting beat of which there's bleeding mud.
On slides bringing down my canopy love.
She blows it down on my olive hands wasting enough,
for in her heart it spills all over the street.
As the bread of our ears soak it up with the water broke .
In my olive oil hands slipping like mud.
Scheme | AB XX XA BX XX XB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101101 110111 11011001 1111011101 001010111101 001011101 110101111101 1110111001 1111111011001 10011111001 101110111110101 0110111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 518 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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