Analysis of A Burning Star
Paul Hicks 1964 (Chicago)
A Burning Star
My love for you is like a burning star;
it seems so close, yet so far,
for the flames of pleasure are deep inside,
so hot and beautiful and nowhere to hide.
It can only get better as time moves on.
as we share our feelings
the future is strong.
| Scheme | A AABBXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101 1111110101 1111111 1011101101 1101000111 11101101111 1111010 01011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 261 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
It is about two hearts coming together and beating as one.
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