Analysis of On a beach near Tokyo
two bikinied angels
squint to the West in
search of love.
They prop each other up,
bought blond head to
bought blond head.
Their bodies teeter
on six-inch soles through
the gauntlet of their
fourteenth year, and irony
weighs them down in giggles
that sing from
souls as thin as ancient
parchment and
as brittle.
Scheme | AXXXBX XBXX AXXXX |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
Metre | 1110 11010 111 111101 1111 111 11010 11111 01011 1110100 111010 111 111110 100 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 297 |
Words | 55 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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