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 |
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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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