Analysis of LISA'S NEMESIS
Kennet Benoît-Hutchins 1952 (Snowdon, Montreal, QC)
Lisa's dilemma
works in 100 Mile House:
he rides a red Harley, with dual carbs,
and leather, hand tooled saddlebags,
that sway above hot chrome pipes.
He sees in her the alabaster china,
so fair, that he never possessed.
his jukebox fantasies have her,
in the wilds of British Columbia,
to share his princely realm.
Lisa is no man's easy rider in a dream,
she'll dance to no tune but her own.
she'll not be packed into leather;
to exist hidden in plain sight;
she truly prefers unicycle riding.
This is truth
she says
more or less.
Scheme | ABBXX AXCAX XXCXX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010 1011 1101101101 0101110 1101111 1100010010 11111001 1110010 0011100100 111101 101111010001 11111101 11110110 10110011 1100110010 111 11 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 541 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 3 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
About this poem
Unrequited love
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