Analysis of Like Voodoo: The Dance Is Esoteric
she hides from herself
the pain is like eating thorns.
so blue, so bold, the chair is aflame.
the awning is Africa, the syntax
is
Europe:
almond eyes, spirit tinges, cringing
the great minimalization.
Africa is killing Africa;
language is a cedarchest;
Mexico is an heirloom.
she hides in dungeons; she loves as disputed:
the poet needs the parasol—the flame,
features going mild, women looking
like ink.
the greats are singed, severed, exalted.
syllabic Russian beaut. Jerusalem
with fire, Europe is Danish. never
with respect, as not to see a woman;
never with disrespect, as not to see
a
woman.
the comma, so intimate, the pain,
glorious—looking at one, seeing
thrice—courting each personality.
the poet can’t love, she tries, she dies;
the scribbler is assaulted by Africa;
the musician is traveling Italy;
the ventriloquist, fretting the dungeon.
too much the losing of time—the pain
in arms, the fright in dying; it’s
coming
it’s rapacious,
mothers are waiting—to leap into
razors, a foolish clown, a soul trying
to escape the beauty.
Scheme | XXAXXXBCDEX EABX EXXCFDC CBE XDFC CXBXEBE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 0111101 111101101 010110001 1 10 10110110 011 100110100 10101 10111 11010111010 01010101 101011010 11 011110010 0101010100 1101011010 1011111010 101011111 0 10 010110001 100101110 11010100 010111111 01010101100 00101100100 0110010 110101101 01010101 10 1010 101101101 1001010110 101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,090 |
Words | 206 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 4, 7, 3, 4, 7 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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