Analysis of galleria



......everywhere people are so caught up
with their own selves
advertisements of their own lives
black blazers and torn jeans
tortoised shelled spectacles
martinis with olives and bleu cheese
mock turtlenecks and silicone breasts
......... are you listening to me?

hey? - can't i get a drink? for goodness sakes
...... i'm the only elephant in the room

wait, there's the king ...........
hey king! ..................nice suit!!

is that new?


Scheme XXXXXXXX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 10101111 1111 1001111 110011 11100 010110011 1100101 1110011 1111011101 1010100001 1101 1111 111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 428
Words 67
Sentences 10
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 77
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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i once read a poem by neruda, and it touched me to a point that propoelled my interest. and then i read althuzer by vicente huidobro whereby a man parachuted from the sky and the world unfolded into his poetic epic and it took me to a different place different from my ignorant geography of poetry. but then jorge luis borges blew my mind and made poetry not only about truth but utter sublime fiction amidst an exploded horizon- boundless literature off a free falling cliff and the only thing to do was grow wings in midair and take the ride. more…

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