Analysis of For the Foxes
Charles Bukowski 1920 (Andernach) – 1994 (San Pedro)
Don't feel sorry for me.
I am a competent,
satisfied human being.
be sorry for the others
who
fidget
complain
who
constantly
rearrange their
lives
like
furniture.
juggl ing mates
and
attitudes
their
confusi on is
constant
and it will
touch
whoever they
deal with.
beware of them:
one of their
key words is
'love.'
and beware those who
only take
instructions from their
God
for they have
failed completely to live their own
lives.
don't feel sorry for me
because I am alone
for even
at the most terrible
moments
humor
is my
companion.
I am a dog walking
backwards
I am a broken
banjo
I am a telephone wire
strung up in
Toledo, Ohio
I am a man
eating a meal
this night
in the month of
September.
put your sympathy
aside.
they say
water held up
Christ:
to come
through
you better be
nearly as
lucky.
Scheme | Axb xCxx CadExf xxx dgx xxhx xdgi cxdx xjE Aj kxxfxl bx lm fkm xxxif axhxxxcaxa |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011 110100 101010 1101010 1 10 01 1 100 011 1 1 100 111 0 10 1 111 10 011 1 0101 11 0111 111 111 1 00111 101 01011 1 111 10101111 1 111011 011101 110 101100 10 10 11 010 110110 10 11010 1 1101010 110 010010 1101 1001 11 0011 010 11100 01 11 1011 1 11 1 1101 101 10 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 733 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 6, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 3, 2, 6, 2, 2, 3, 5, 10 |
Lines Amount | 64 |
Letters per line (avg) | 10 |
Words per line (avg) | 2 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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