Analysis of Sid and Nancy
on a Sunday afternoon
when no one was paying attention
we disappeared into the belly of a fish
to drink and to dance
to indulge in the glory of each other's touch
it felt like Tuck Everlasting
eating pancakes at midnight
and cigarettes for breakfast
only the walls of this beast remember
our fingerprints all over the debris
that formed our foolish bedframe
and doubled as our grave
on our dizzy toes we spun
until breathless and giggling we collapsed
took one tandem breath
and nose to nose fell exultantly to sleep
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLBMNO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 111110010 10101010101 11011 101001011101 1111010 10111 001110 1001111010 1010110001 1110101 0101101 11010111 01100100101 11101 01111010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 501 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 424 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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