Analysis of Fire & Ice
The sky gapes open,
Its woeful tears cascading,
Exploding with anguish, that it too,
Sees her, devastatingly broken.
Each rainstorm visits her,
Vicious and seething,
It knows there are marks of the breathing,
Scents and shadows of unwelcome visitors.
Each icy raindrop caresses her,
Trying to soothe the skin,
That has become akin,
To the raging dance of flames,
That cease to blur.
The sky is filled with wrath,
And shuts its curtains around her,
Shielding away from unwanted eyes,
Her grief - the undying aftermath.
This is the dance,
Between fire and ice,
Between crippling touches,
And the caresses of paradise.
It would suffice,
If loss would err towards her vices,
For ice to receive power - a grant,
This is her, eternal, infinite chant.
Scheme | ABXA CBBX CDDXC ECXE XFGF FGHH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (28%) |
Metre | 01110 1101010 010110111 10100010 11100 10010 111111010 1011010100 11010100 101101 110101 1010111 1111 011111 01110010 100110101 01001010 1101 011001 0110010 00010110 1101 111101010 111011001 1100101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 749 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
Came to me while I got drenched in a rainstorm! Open to interpretation :)
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Written on December 20, 2022
Submitted by Maheenielts1 on January 09, 2023
Modified on March 14, 2023
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