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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