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.
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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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