Analysis of Flames
Someone sees the outer flame
And quenches it with water
Someone cannot see inner flames
But it extinguishes it with tears
Outer flame damages objects
Inner flame damages life
My enemies adopt both ways
I stay in such flames
Outer and inner
To keep busy myself
Scheme | ABCDEFGCBH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 110101 0101110 1101101 111111 10110010 1011001 11000111 11011 10010 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 250 |
Words | 46 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 214 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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