Analysis of Flower in the darkness
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
Each step a drum in the silence
Each look grasps like a rope
But what... A flower to lance
Glancing back in the darkness
Each touch a clasp of hope
Each smell lost in the air
How bare me this earth
Boring into your heart
| Scheme | ABCDBEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010010 111101 1101011 1010010 110111 111001 11111 100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 220 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Written on December 15, 2022
Submitted by heathert.34240 on December 15, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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