Analysis of Lunch in a Japanese Restaurant
Business people all around
Eating Japanese food
Trying to impress while they ingest
Others of their party with lies in their eyes
Talking at the top of their voices.
It gets too loud to hear.
Conversation turns into noise.
While I sit here pensively penning a poem
As I wait for my "Yaki Soba."
They order expensive, tasteless "Sashimi."
They cover it with burning "Wasabi"and ginger.
They drink exotic cold "Saki."
They pretend to know how to use chopsticks
As I finish my soy-soaked "Tofu"
Drinking a warm cup of green tea or two.
I wonder if they really think they impress
Woman nervously twisting their pearls
In their "Versace" black satin dress
Who blink their eyes like shameless flirts
At men in stylish expensive "Armani" shirts?
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIHJKLMMNONPP |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1010101 10011 101011101 10111011011 101011110 111111 0101011 1111110010 1111111 110010101 1101110110 11010110 101111111 111011110 1001111111 11011101101 101001011 010101101 11111101 11010010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 719 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 587 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 127 |
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Submitted on September 18, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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