Analysis of I Thought I Saw Nietzsche



I thought I saw Nietzsche yesterday
dawdling around Germany.
He was wearing a trench coat
and listening to a cd of repressed Wagner.
He looked up at me cross-eyed,
(maybe in love,)
and stumbled over his tongue
trying to speak
but because he was beyond good and evil
he had nothing left to talk about,
so he blew a kiss
and hummed Wagner to me
and Spat
as he made what must have been an arpeggio
were he emotional,
but arpeggios are for slaves
not masters who don't understand
that slaves are more powerful
because they are too dumb to listen.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11111010 1001100 1110011 0100101110110 1111111 1001 0101011 1011 10111011010 111011101 11101 011011 01 111111111 010100 11111 1101101 1111100 011111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 524
Words 102
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 431
Words per stanza (avg) 101
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on April 12, 2023

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