Analysis of Coffeehouse Trance
Motto: If the Pope is the poet of the love God
of jealousy, the poet is the Pope of Desire.
Sinking into trance of automatic writing,
nothing of the coffeehouse coming through
but nymph-visions passing or alighting,
the dazed transcriptionist receives the new
afflatus with confidence he'll get it down
in efficientest symplicity.
He sees two couples about the town
in the haven of youth's felicity.
They start comparing parents' love-lives.
One girl's was riddled with infidelity,
jealous harangues tanked up in dives.
The other girl's own folks' terse civility
was all they could spare for one another
ever since the Mother's found-out fling
a decade prior made just some other
platonic mockery of desire's real thing.
Now then, one of those two guys who are shared by
those two girls had a Dad who was gone
and a Mom who hooked a bit, the boy nearby
in the next room while the revels went on.
The second guy, friend of the girls' other guy,
had parents who were ever deep in love,
met not each other's strayings with some wry
possessive judgment - but forgave: above
all each deferred t'other in own bod's claims.
All four offspring in their a-quatre menage
to remake human love bent modest aims,
staring down Venus's decolletage....
Sinking into trance of automatic writing,
nothing of the coffeehouse coming through
but nymph-visions passing or alighting,
the dazed transcriptionist receives the new.
Scheme | ab CDCD eaef xfxf bcbc gxgx ghgh ijij CDCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010110101011 11000101011010 10011101010 101010101 11101011 0110101 111001111 011 111100101 0010110100 110101011 1111010100 10011101 01011110100 1111111010 101010111 0011011110 0101001111 11111111111 111101111 00111010111 0011101011 01011101101 1101010101 111101111 0101010101 11011100111 11101011 1111011101 10111 10011101010 101010101 11101011 0110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,470 |
Words | 265 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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