Analysis of Piccadilly. Perfect.
Lights are on all night
Every night
Milling crowds
All with smiles
Eyes fighting Sleep.
Seeing at the circumference
Just about every nation.
Theatre goers in the afterglow
Game players
Buskers
Boutique shoppers
Hungry stomachs
About to find something exotic
Probably unhealthy dish
Probably gaseous.
One turns to fellow travelers.
On either side
Surprising agreement, conversation
Isn’t this great?
Circus focuses at centre
On love statue
Cherub with bow and arrow
Finding, firming up rich
New affections.
In whole world.
One other place
Bearing such rich fruit…
In cosmopolitan ways.
Niagara Falls.
Played happily at each
With Hilary.
My constant fellow traveler.
And route planner.
| Scheme | AABXXXC DEBEXXXX EXCXFXDXX XXXX XXXFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 1001 101 111 1101 1010010 10110010 100100010 110 1 0110 1010 011110010 1000101 100100 11110100 1101 010010010 111 10100110 111 1011010 101011 1010 011 1101 10111 001001 0101 110011 1100 11010100 0110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 700 |
| Words | 128 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 8, 9, 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 33 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
Piccadilly Circus is a road junction and public space of London's West End in the City of Westminster. It was built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with Piccadilly. In this context, a circus, from the Latin word meaning "circle", is a round open space at a street junction.[1]
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Written on March 17, 2023
Submitted by dougb.19255 on March 17, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on April 13, 2023
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