Analysis of Foolosopher
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
The bar is my cathedral,
deep and dark as the hole in my soul.
The scent of cheap whiskey and cigarette smoke
mixes with the sound of lonely old men
sipping their sorrows away.
This is my church,
where I come to confess my sins
to the bartender who listens
and offers me another drink.
The neon lights flicker like hope
in the eyes of the drunkards
who stumble in and out
in a constant cycle
of regret and redemption.
I write poems on napkins
and spill my heart onto the bar
like a spilled drink
as the jukebox plays
the same old songs
that speak to my brokenness.
The women here are tough,
with hearts of steel
and scars that tell their stories.
They glance at me,
half curious, half indifferent.
But I know better than to try
to win them over
with my drunken charms.
Outside, the city is alive
with all its dirty secrets
and endless possibilities.
But here, in this dive bar,
time stands still
and I am at home
among the lost and forgotten.
Ed the bartender calls me Foolosopher,
the drunken poet
with a heart full of pain
and a pen that bleeds
all the ugly truths
of this broken world.
And I will keep coming back
to this holy place
where I can drown my sorrows
and find solace
among the broken and beautiful.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111010 101101011 0111100011 1010111011 1011001 1111 11110111 1010110 01010101 01011011 0011010 110001 001010 1010010 1110110 01111001 1011 1011 0111 11111 010111 1111 0111110 1111 11001010 11110111 11110 11101 11010101 1111010 0100100 110111 111 01111 01010010 1010111 01010 101111 00111 10101 11101 0111101 11101 1111110 0110 010100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,221 |
Words | 253 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 9, 6, 8, 7, 11 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 160 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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