Analysis of Burning Out
Some of us were meant to age
of those I am not one
To grace a rocker on the porch
death by zero-sum
When youth is gone my will retreats
the candle at its wick
As dreams abate, the moment late
—flowers all but picked
(Dreamsleep August, 2022)
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110111 111111 11010101 11101 11111101 010111 11010101 10111 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 245 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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