Analysis of Fire And Rain
Shrinking immortality into
the moment
Ignoring the impostors,
--- future and past
Inhaling eternity’s thunder
with every breath
Breathing out,
--- fire and rain
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010001 010 0100010 1001 010110 11001 101 1001 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 202 |
Words | 28 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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