Analysis of Paterson City Hall
Hard by the live chicken market
sits a lumpish copy
of the Lyon city hall.
It’s sidewalk-side toilets
for a passerby’s needs
have white entrance steps
marred with grime and pee.
For the upstairs bathrooms
you have to be somebody
to see varnished wood, medallions,
bronze banisters, gilded marquetry
and the window-ledge tomes
containing written-up lives
against the light held at bay
by unwashed panes.
Scheme | ABCDEFBGBHIJKLM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011010 10110 1010101 11110 1011 11101 11101 10011 111110 11101010 11101 001011 0101011 0101111 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 410 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 327 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
About this poem
It’s about what the title says: the city hall in Paterson, New Jersey.
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