This is an analysis of Sunflower Sutra by Allen Ginsberg.
I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look for the sunset over the box house hills and cry.
Jack Kerouac sat beside me on a busted rusty iron pole, companion, we thought the same thoughts of the soul, bleak and blue and sad-eyed, surrounded by the gnarled steel roots of trees of machinery.…
Browse poems by Allen Ginsberg
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a b b c d c a X X e f e f d f X X X c X eXe
- Stanza lengths: 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Metre: 1110100100101111100110010010101001101110011111 1100101110101010101011011001111111010101110100100 0101010101001111110101011101111001110110111101111010110110 110110111101111010111011011100101011 11101001111101000111010 1100101010101101001101001101001011000010001011011110101001110101101100001 10111010101110111000111110101010001 010010111110101011101001100101010110010101010110110100 11111100110001111100101010011011001 01010111011101111111 011111111101010 11101110101111101111011011011101010001010111010010111001010110101 111101110101111101010011011111010110010001110001010101010100110110111110110011010101101010101101010110010011 01001101111001100111110011 0011000110001100101100100110010011111011010100011111110101 1101111100011111010011111101 11101010110010101111110110110010110100100101001011001100101001010 101011010110100110 11101011010100111 1111010011101101111010 101011001111111100110 1111011111110100010101110110011111110100100101000111011000111111110011001101010111101010101010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 22
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, on, its, that, out, your, in, you, locomotive, sunflower
Anaphora
and