Analysis of Provincetown Images '66 (For Allen, wherever you are)



I have my bike so then it’s
downtown Provincetown
 and Christ tears by
 in a cream Corvair
 with a blond bohemian virgin
 wearing gypsy jewels

It’s buy pecan made-on-the-premises fudge
 then go down Grecian Arena steps
 if you must
 under a “Pre-Fire-Sale” sign
 and buy genuine
 direct-from-the-cape made-in-japan
 junk

And then it’s sometime later
 and I’m turned on
 reading woolly Ginsberg
 “Reality Sandwiches”
 on the bottle beach
 speckled pattern of bottles, crushed Shaeffer cans
 and tourists
 while Commercial Street combo
 blows happenings
 from an empty cafe-
my new buddy Steve’s beneath the pier
 and tourists splash and wait for night.

And there’s
 boys boys boys
 with beach bleached hair
 and light brown hair
 and dark brown hair
 and they’re comin’ down the street in masses
 and they’re hangin’ from the rented rooms
 thousands!
and there’s an infinity of
 naked arched feet
 and bell-bottoms are in and on
 and yellow light and salt air
 and snaking oboe moods
weave a strange opiate

it’s a crazy tightrope night
 and some bearded pussycat
 with a shiny black hat
 bumps by and gives me the eye
 but don’t save me baby,
 I know what I’m doin’


Scheme ABCDXX XXXXXXX DEXXXXXXXXDF AXDDDXXXXXEDXX FGGCXB
Poetic Form Tetractys  (33%)
Metre 1111111 1110 0111 0011 101010010 101010 11011101001 111100101 111 10011011 01100 011011001 1 011110 0111 101010 10100 10101 10101101101 010 101011 1100 111001 111010101 01010111 01 111 1111 0111 0111 011101010 01110101 10 01101001 1011 01101001 0101011 010101 101100 101011 011010 101011 1101101 111110 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,172
Words 194
Sentences 3
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 6, 7, 12, 14, 6
Lines Amount 45
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 180
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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