Analysis of Detective noir story (Poems 3,4 & 5)



John's date was no bug-eyed Betty, smarty
 I first thought, but she's more a baby vamp
 With some chassis, his goon left the party
 Probably went back to the rub to camp

Hoping to snag a fish, a dumb Dora
 To take to his struggle buggy to neck
 John hires drug store cowboys. We talked busha
 Then the ankle blew to get dolled up, Heck

More dolling up she'll be in a toy store
 Likely use the Ameche to roommate
 To get notes from class she won't be there for
 He cut to the chase, said he'd pay my rate

(A Yard a day I cover expenses)
 Grabbed slid Grand before I reached my senses

I uttered “I take it I should play Spade,
 Drop the P.I. be Gonif,?” John nodded
 His dough was in my pocket, I'll degrade
 Myself to keep it there, our talk plodded

Along, my mind wandered waiting for him
 To get to the plot to find what to steal
 Giving me ten days dough the chance was slim
 The deal was on the up and up. I'm real

Close to believing when I fall, It's for good
 He would not let me fall to copper hands
 His grand would be forfeit but if a hood
 Was near-by at my Harlem sunset, grands

Walk off. Now know he has the curse on me
 They'll be shadow of jingle-brained jobbie

He was done beating his jaw, spoke of loot
 Spilled the rumble, speaking from out of a daze
“No Gooseberry lay, forget Oyster fruit”
“You pipe that?” I swam up through my thought's haze

He asked me if I knew my Geology
 I spoke “no”. “You took it all for Granite”
He said. “Right! and you know Theology”
I said. “It's rarest Gem on the Planet”

He babbled on. “A gem inside a gem
 Egg-sized Diamond encased in Amber
 Bindle punk tale I never believed them
 If true, that's something to make me clamber

I asked what made him believe it was real
 The grapevine said his foe had set a deal


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF XX GHGH IJIJ KLKL AX MNMN AOAO PQPQ JJ
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111010 1111110101 1110111010 1001110111 1011010110 1111101011 1101111110 1010111111 111110011 101001011 1111111111 1110111111 0101110010 1110111110 1101111111 10111110 1110110101 1111110110 0111101011 1110111111 1011110111 0111010111 11010111111 1111111101 1111101101 111111011 1111110111 11111011 1111011111 10101011101 110101101 1111111111 11111110100 1111111110 1110110100 1111011010 1101010101 111001010 1011110011 1111011110 1111101111 011111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,759
Words 348
Sentences 13
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 2
Lines Amount 42
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 111
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on October 08, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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