Analysis of Bookstores, Cafes, and Chaos



Fragments of the world appear:
a blue-white streetlight hovers near;
a shifting, sandaled foot scuffs oiled wood;
the scent of tea and black caffeine
corrupts the air like unseen fog.
Blind people flip through Vonnegut
and architecture magazines. I laugh.
In such a place where people find
simplicity in ordered words,
the sheer verbosity in all those books
came from a pool of ink
that really isn't big at all.
That is, unless you consider that ink it is,
then it's a lot.
Added to that, varieties of addictive beverages,
of reading styles and friendly conversations,
and all should make this place, in fact,
the anarchist's nightmare,
the church chaos gets headaches in.


Scheme AABCDEFGHIJKLMLNOPQ
Poetic Form
Metre 1010101 0111101 01011111 01110101 01011011 11011100 01001011 01011101 01000101 0110111 110111 11010111 110110101111 1101 101101001010100 1101010010 01111101 011 0110110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 654
Words 113
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 537
Words per stanza (avg) 113
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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