Analysis of Vinnie and the crackhead



Vinnie and the crackhead

Was it not beautiful, baby?
They way the smoke curls
It's like poetry
A little fire before it seeps into your head
I used to watch the matches burn
Look at my fingers yellow from the burns
I used to imagine I was magic
Now, I don't sleep
My eyes are wide awake all the time
We got a little more rock
Before we go out to the streets
I swear to you it's the last time
I hate when you are with those guys, but
A little party never hurt no one
We can get out of here, we can go upstate
or to my sisters on the island
She's always beggin' me to see her and the kids
Anything to get me out of Harlem
Don't worry she'll love you, say you from Spain
We clean up a bit and we can take our sh*t
Up out of here go to the shore
Just one more time, baby I swear

We got one more hit for the road


Scheme A BXBAXXXXCXXCAXAAXXXAXX A
Poetic Form
Metre 10001 11110010 11011 11100 0101001110111 11110101 1111010101 1110101110 1111 111101101 1101011 01111101 11111011 111111111 0101010111 11111111111 111101010 1111110001 101111110 1101111111 1110101111011 11111101 11111011 11111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 783
Words 174
Sentences 2
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 22, 1
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 206
Words per stanza (avg) 58
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Submitted on March 20, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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