Analysis of Fire Still Burns
With age in my body,
but youth on the page
A sword old and rusted,
now tempers with rage
These bones may be brittle,
with feet slow to drill
But fire still burns,
—in my memory and will
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110 11101 011010 11011 111110 11111 11011 0110001 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 224 |
Words | 42 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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