Analysis of For The Lady With Blood On Her Bib
John Jessup Kennan 1953 (Pomona)
you treated me like
your personal buffet
served on a tray
with little toothpicks
bone
fragments
pick your teeth
and grin
you wanna toss
leftover
scraps of me
to the
bitches in the
yard hounds
that won't shut
up
and crap
everywhere
crystal chalices and
paper cups
bring in the staff
to clean up
the mess
pull away from
the curb
in your hearse
who are you saving
that velvet crypt
for anyway?
tidbit in time
morsel of your
forever
you are too
refined for
gristle like me
i can't pretend to
be beef
wellington
or canard
l'orange
can i have my
toothpick back?
i need something
to remember
you by and it
was the only
thing
holding me
together
© John Kennan 1-5-20
| Scheme | XABXXXXX XCDEEXAFXX XXXFXXXXGXB XHCIHDIXJXX XX GCXDGDC J |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (64%) Etheree (28%) |
| Metre | 11011 110010 1101 1101 1 10 111 01 1101 10 111 10 1000 11 111 1 01 10 1010 101 1001 111 01 1011 01 011 11110 1101 110 101 1011 010 111 011 1011 11011 11 100 101 110 1111 11 1110 1010 1101 1010 1 101 010 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 624 |
| Words | 124 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 10, 11, 11, 2, 7, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 50 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 11 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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