Analysis of Philip Levine. Pulitzer winner.
He write of Detroit
And later California shores
Encounters, Jew jabs
Stimulants and bores.
The grinding factory
Old stores torn down.
Coloured districts
Songs Motown.
Auto assembly beat
Smoke never clears.
Long way to Dearborn.
Class conscious smears.
“Arrival and Departure.”
Exceptional release.
Stanzas that provoke;
bring peace.
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Philip Levine
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Philip Levine (b. January 10, 1928, Detroit, Michigan. d. February 14, 2015, Fresno, California) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit.
| Scheme | ABXB XCXC XDXD EFXF EGGX A |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 0100101 01011 10001 010100 1111 1010 11 100101 1101 1111 1101 0100010 010001 10101 11 01010 11011001 1001 1100 1001110001100110010010101001100100101111100110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 630 |
| Words | 112 |
| Sentences | 15 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Written on April 02, 2023
Submitted by dougb.19255 on April 02, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on April 02, 2023
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