Analysis of The Elements
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
The world becomes
A language forgetting itself
In drops of letters reaching
For the sun's fingertips.
The cat's purr
Drops like a tune
Without a melody.
Silence becomes
A handful of stars
Falling into darkness.
And we, too, become
Drowned in drops of time
Without a past or future.
But within these drops
The pain drips.
The love seeps through.
The beauty whispers.
Scheme | AXXB CXX AXX XXC XBXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101 01001001 0111010 10110 011 1101 010100 1001 0111 100110 01101 10111 0101110 10111 011 0111 01010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 369 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 58 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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