Analysis of Irreverence
I dreamt I was almost
a woman, but when I woke
I made love with a spinster
who whistled anthems
in the dark, then I dreamt
again of New York, of
frantic cab rides and
mysterious women
in raincoats, of winds
lifting dried leaves
from gutters to curbs
in symphonic swirls,
and of a vault of a room
in the West Side Y
where an aspiring
baritone’s scales and
drunks beat on the door
each night like
African drums, or
a headache, I tell you,
or heart.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOGPQPRS |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 0101111 1111010 11010 001111 011111 10110 010010 0111 1011 11011 00101 0101101 00111 11010 1010 11101 111 10011 01111 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 449 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 350 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
About this poem
From the Anonymous Issue of Antenna, winter 1981. A small press long defunct. From a trip to the American Letters conference in Saratoga Springs, 1980. For an old friend, JM.
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Written on January 01, 1979
Submitted by GRobbie on November 14, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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