Analysis of Red Mouth
zebra black 1947 (ny)
she ate the chocolate bunny
staring at her own bare wiggly xylophone rainbow toes
sitting on the toilet with a red cherry lipstick mouth
humming television jingles about nothing
but ketchup logged White Castle bacon cheese burgers
and amino acids as she called in imaginary air strikes
on toy cycloptic pigmies
who lived in a rubber tub on the bathroom floor by her feet
filled with toilet paper rolls, Vaseline, face cream
a folded rubber enema bag
and a half empty bottle of Luxardo Cherry
so she could take a swig when ever the stars moved her
she swung her hips like a floosy
as if in the substrate of disco hell
wearing a cheap red party dress
only to be forced down on her knees
to take it hard and walloped until cross-eyed and grinning
at brawly tattooed men
that stank of whiskey
terrorizing her with titillating thrills
as if her body where their fun house and amusement park
of loopty loops and Ferris wheels
all make believe of course
in that little damp cubby hole fantasy
of umbra sweet curves and wet holes
marked Venus dreamscape
come fuck me land
Scheme | ABXCXXBXXXAX BXXXCXAXXX XAXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 1010111001011 1010101011011 10100100110 110111010110 0010101110010011 1111 11001011011101 11101011011 010101001 00110101110 1111011100110 1101101 110011101 10011101 101111101 1111010111010 11011 11110 100011001 11010111100101 1110101 110111 0110111100 11011011 1101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,049 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 10, 5 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 290 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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