Analysis of NYC noir in black and white
NYC nior in black and white
Dark landscapes 1957 NYC
of automats radio city and hotdog stands
memories of things past
Take us back to lucid dreams of light and shadows cast
set the stage late night dark wet NY detectives on the beat
slow moving like grit and steel they stride down the great white way
steam and clouds shoot to the sky from sewer covers
smoke rings blast out from bill boards of urban midnight cowboys
from route 66
On the street hipsters glide down in pinstriped suits
cool sleek long with straddled watch chains dragging
smoking stogies from drooping lips
wing tipped shoes rested on black boxes at shoe shiners row at 53rd and lex
wanting fem defal’s dark diva’s in fish nets tight red skin dresses with sleek spike heels long cigarettes with long brim hats and netted veils as they walk the line swinging their Purses leaning against posts on the foggy corners
Dharma bums gaze at city lights dreaming of old bards songs
through garment push carts and rushing feet
in the machinery of the steamy night
the boxcars moving past open doors
The cities glare in shadows bare
neon signs striptease flashing in the backdrop of honking horns and traffic
night clubs casinos and one night stands in greasy motels
pool hall hustler’s poker players loan sharker's and scheamers
whisky bars dockyard and widowed screams
tenement houses windows open curtains drawn
sweat and muscle tee shirts yelling out to others
saxophone city of butchers boozers bribers and brown baggers
Bright yellow checkers and taxis on Times Square
down the smoke hazed dark lanes against the hard walls
slim Jim zoot suiter’s lazy dazed side leaning
roll loaded dice with steaming cheap Tricks
Newspaper stands and barbers shops with marbled checker floors
white steaming towels with waiting hot lather
man with straight edge and black leather strap leans over
with Sinatra playing in the back
Neon city balanced in chaotic disorder of abstract lines
of municipal signs
city where monk lady day and Coltrane play Improve
in old coffee houses of smoke filled cafes for pennies a day
as street poets whisper and drink their troubles away
dreaming of Brando bogie smoking Joe's and blondes
of slip hips and jive
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 111 111010011 100111 111110111011 10111111010101 11011011110111 101110111010 111111111011 11 101111011 1111101110 1011101 11110111011111101 101111001111110111110111110101111011011010011101010 10111101101111 110110101 00010010101 01101101 0101011 1011100011101010 11010011101001 1110010101101 10110101 100101010101 101011101110 101011011011 11010010111 10111101011 1111101110 110111011 1010101110101 11010110110 111101101110 101010001 10101000100101011 101001 1011101010101 011010111111001 1110100111001 101101010101 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 2,223 |
Words | 386 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 6, 5, 4, 8, 4, 4, 7 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 201 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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