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.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKBLGIMNIO |
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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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