Analysis of Feeding The Raven
You can’t burn out
if you’re not on fire
Jim roaming wild
pyre to pyre
The only way out
the only way in
Flaming the moment
—death rebegins
(Las Vegas Boulevard: January, 2023)
| Scheme | AB XB AX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 111110 1101 10110 01011 01010 10010 11 11010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 186 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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