Analysis of Scorched And Burned
Seventeen children
on a highway to hell
Thumbs out—noses down,
perdition rings their bell
Seventeen children,
their backs now fully turned
The piper calls them blindly
—their futures scorched and burned
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)
| Scheme | Ab xb Ac xc x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10110 10111 11101 1111 10110 111101 0101110 110101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 239 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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