Analysis of Midnight Cafe
Greg Lanier 1962 (Atlanta, GA)
In the silence of my dreaming
visions clouding -
bells a ringing
Sipping nectar from the altar
William Carlos
Uncle Walter
Robert Frost directs the traffic
Wallace Stevens?
chiropractic
Emily’s riding in her carriage
secret passions -
never marriage
As the evening hour approaches
bells transcend
to dulcimers
Then the comfort of the Blues
in the strains
of Langston Hughes
| Scheme | AAABCBDEDFEFGHCIJI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 00101110 1010 1010 10101010 1010 1010 10101010 1010 010 1100010 1010 1010 101010010 101 11 1010101 001 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 413 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 18 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 310 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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