I see analytical philosophy as admirably precise but also shallow, in that it gets hung up on a certain brand of logical rigor while strongly resisting, and in many cases outright refusing to look at its underlying assumptions and whatever realms of inquiry that would open up. As a result, for all of its claims of dissolving pseudo-problems (which it has certainly done), analytical philosophy is at the same time perpetually getting hung up on the most trivial issues, many of which have clear and simple solutions in continental philosophy.
One of the goals of analytical philosophy was to bring philosophy back in line with real, everyday life, but the world of logic, propositions, and self-conscious attention to grammar is a far cry from the world that we human beings live in. In real life, even when we're busy doing analytical philosophy, a great deal more is going on than rigorous logic; in fact, rigorous logic is perhaps the biggest metaphysical delusion of all, in that no one has clear numbers, structures, and categories before them when they're thinking about things; what's really going on is not some sort of lucid apprehension of universal truth but a simple act of expression, and this faculty of expression, if we can call it that, is constantly bending, twisting, and disregarding the rules of analytical philosophy. The fact is that reality isn't encapsulated in a tidy little formula, and if it were to be, it wouldn't even be reality: it would be some sort of transcendent apprehension of perfect truth that we, as real beings, can't even comprehend. Nor does that keep reality from having a voice. Reality is talking right now, very loud and clear over anything that grammatical analysis has to say, and by reality, I simply mean everything that I'm saying and which analytical philosophy has chosen to keep silent about. Call that nonsensical if you like, but that only expresses your discomfort with that which you've failed to rationalize.
So rather than saying that continental philosophy is nothing more than poetic, I would say that analytical philosophy is nothing more than reasonable, and make that the subject of a trial in the court of discussion.