Analysis of 100 M Sprint
Grey lead escapes gleaming pistol barrel,
10 bullets soar high in the sky,
piercing fluffy carpets of blue clouds,
flooding air patches with dynamite stench,
as 10 heads sport curly hair,
crisscrossed in pools of sweat,
10 shirts of athletic spun cotton,
10 sweat shorts clinging to muscled leg,
10 time pieces wound on wrists,
10 pairs of footwear studded with spikes,
10 bands of multicolored foam,
fitted tightly to throbbing forehead,
10 chains of shining metal,
jingling against heavy chest bone,
10 pairs of eyes converging dead straight,
reflecting uncurbed desires of complete triumph,
10 sets of moist palms,
clenched tightly into blood curling fists,
10 pairs of curved ankles,
knelt towards saw dust race tracks,
10 pairs of pounding hearts,
ready to leap in heated ecstasy,
the 100 m sprint is just about to commence.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLAMNOPIQRSTU |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101101010 1011001 101010111 101101101 111101 10111 11010110 11101101 110111 1111011 110101 101011010 111010 1011011 11101011 010101010110 1111 110011101 11110 1011111 11101 1011010100 0111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 829 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 670 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 137 |
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