Analysis of Waking Up in Barcelona



In Barcelona, women hang
their laundry out to dry.
Bright-colored dresses, shirts
pinned next to pale underwear,
next to blue jeans, capture our attention
like frescoes blowing in the wind.

Throughout the vast and boulevarded city,
Gaudí's undulating wonders dance:
bold broken tiles placed one-by-one-by-one,
pieces in a world-size puzzle--
turn into an apartment, park,
unfinished church.

In the tapas bars,
tasty, bite-sized appetizers
meld like mosaics into meals.
Swallowing is art in Barcelona.


Scheme XXXXAX XXAXXX XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 0010101 110111 110101 111110 11111010010 11010001 01010110 11100101 1101111111 10001110 10110101 0101 00101 1011100 11010011 100110010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 486
Words 74
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 133
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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