Analysis of another night at the outback or New Haven, Manhattan




Another night at the Outback or New Haven in Manhattan

To be young and intoxicated

Making the rounds to see

If anyone want to come home with me

A pleasant surprise your blue eyes

Time treated you well, I see

The lanky girl grew to be

A fetching beauty and Baby

A pleasant memory we

Had an afternoon in high school

You ran with a different crowd

But I always went for the heat

You were pretty underneath

Your flannel and jeans

Stoked me eager, I strove

To please you I would have

Lived in those blue eyes

But I was foolish, I never stood

Still long enough to love

So here we are in Manhattan

Young and sexy old friends

How do you think this will end?

Your boss oozes jealousy

What the hell do you see in me?

The rapier wit, the cocky smile

Could not get me past a county mile

But you shared the hard road

You know this city exploits the young

And we made it on the other side

For a while, if we can live the lie

Euro trash posers, preppy kids

All want the life we live

Until they get bored of slumming

And jettison off to Aspen

We will stay here in our rushed hours

Looking for more than warmth of a body

In cold Manhattan nights

Soundtrack: “Let's Stay Together-Al Green, Stand By Me- Ben E. King”


Scheme A X B B C B B B B X X X X X X X C X X A X X B B D D X E X X X X E A X B X X
Poetic Form
Metre 010110111100010 11100100 100111 110111111 01001111 1101111 0101111 01010010 0101001 1101011 11101001 1111101 101001 11001 111011 111111 10111 111101101 110111 11110010 101011 1111111 1110100 10111101 010010101 111110101 111011 11110101 011110101 101111101 1011101 110111 0111111 01001110 1111010110 1011111010 010101 11101011111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,164
Words 237
Sentences 4
Stanzas 38
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 38
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 25
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted on May 08, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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