Analysis of Intimacy in the Night Cafe
In these moments, when our legs are aligned,
each eye will spy coffee bean delights.
Minds focussed for many seconds, as if selecting
from a roster of rotating smells; of dough here dealt -
Sometimes not, if a jangling till keeps slamming
clanging this ordered something into nothing.
This - cherished something - in the designated light,
a tiny blip of vibration; a play from the mortal day -
Curtain calls replayed by base or soprano murmurs;
warming a social winter into steaming life.
But when chaos shadows sweep precipices
there appear mountains that we all must climb -
So I took my walk opposite of where the hikers ordered -
this detour, a metre into randomness;
And found her heart surprised that I felt not denied
to any access of where her soul resides; this strangeness
- A naked tremble - nothing that the beaming moon
or stars in the sky would ever hide behind.
Scheme | ABCXCC XXXXBX XDXDXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101101101 111110101 1101101011010 101011011111 0111011110 10110100110 11010001001 010110100110101 1010111101010 100101001101 1110111 1011011111 111111001101010 10101001100 010101111101 1101110101110 010101010101 11001110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 859 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 233 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on March 30, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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