Sign inventory, week 2

Sign inventory for "Little Picture Catalogue" by Novica Tadic on p. 206 of Contemporary World Poetry:

• The first and second stanza's cadence is slowed by "o" sounds.
• In stanza one, "dead" breaks the slow "o" sound pattern.
• The "l" sound is prominent in stanza two, creating a lulling effect.
• In stanza three the three lines shorten rapidly down to the word "hen" as the last line of the stanza.
• Stanza four contains the only simile of the poem. It compares two occurences that are related to the same place- a "whorehouse."
• In stanza five there is a brief catalogue of vacant house items, emptiness being emphasized in the words.
• Stanzas two, three, and six make references to spirituality with the words "halo", "holy", "crucified", and "salvation."
• There are no proper nouns in the poem.
• Emptiness and anonymity are present throughout the text in the following words: "dead", "ghostly", "blind", "someone", "a customer", "a woman", "empty", "not one human face", and "unknown."
• All stanzas begin with prepositions except the last one which begins with "unknown."