Analysis of The Look:
Charles Bukowski 1920 (Andernach) – 1994 (San Pedro)
I once bought a toy rabbit
at a department store
and now he sits and ponders
me with pink sheer eyes:
He wants golf balls and glass
walls.
I want quiet thunder.
Our disappointment sits between us.
| Scheme | XXXX XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110110 100101 0111010 11111 111101 1 111010 100101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 189 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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