Analysis of The Oxford Street



"The faces of hundreds of strangers
passing me,
like a moment in time
eating nachos with chorizo, black beans, and pink pickled onion
I felt horchata was tasteless.
I sit in a cafe on Oxford Street,
melted butter in the air.

Under the table, swaying slowly with music, my legs crossed
impatiently, I look around, waiting for
some spices to kick in
to lift me.
So cold and glittering
I boarded a bus back home to Old Street.
Next day, again, I am a tourist."


Scheme XAXXXBX XXXAXBX
Poetic Form
Metre 010110110 101 101001 10101111011010 111110 1100011101 1010001 100101010110111 01001101101 110110 111 110100 1100111111 110111010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 458
Words 93
Sentences 6
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 7, 7
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 178
Words per stanza (avg) 43

About this poem

I wrote this poem on my phone, sitting in a cafe at Oxford Street, London.

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Submitted by bhavnakothari.om on September 06, 2023

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Bhavna Kothari

I am a Yoga teacher from India. I paint regularly and write poems occasionally. more…

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