Analysis of Broken Spanish
Sunburned and
Blind to the beggars
Offering sin and sisters
We moved among the Santos and
Windmills made of coffee cans
Spread on vibrant blankets
Shades of blue bahias,
Yellows bound by reds
"Very Cheap. Very fine"
Selling words, selling wool
The hawk-eyed vender saw
Anna stroke the rain bowed wool.
He swooped down discounting
"For You! Today!
My mother's prices!"
We respond in Pigeon English
Shouting louder: pricing lower.
He wraps her gently in the rain bowed blanket
"Can our pigeons out-fly the hawk?"
| Scheme | ABBACDBEFGHGIJKLMNO |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10 11010 1001010 11010100 111101 111010 1111 10111 101101 101101 01111 1010111 11110 1101 11010 10101010 10101010 11010001110 110101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 492 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 19 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 407 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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