Analysis of Leaves
When i burnt medicinal leaves of wild grass in a cauldron,
blending them with sizeable amounts of rusty brown tea powder,
adding paltry pinches of saccharine to the syrup,
stirred vigorously the concoction with an inflated wooden batten,
the outcome was scintillatingly delicious tea; which i sipped with profound contentment.
when i torched a conglomerate of dead tree leaves,
scorching them with somber sticks of lead match and paraffin wax,
there was a crackling fire that swayed with the breeze,
with menacing flames; making futile attempts to lick the sky,
offering me fountains of compassionate warmth;
sublimating my energy from shivers to blissful sleep.
when i ignited a cluster of rustic cowdung cakes,
occasionally probing the fetid slurry with my big toe,
there were delectable puffs of smoke that originated,
i then aligned a frying pan at right angles to the conflagration,
and roasted for myself a sumptuous meal of baked corn coated with salted herring.
when i set ablaze acres of farmland sprawled with ripened nose buds of tobacco,
submerging the entire region with an ocean of stringent kerosene,
the atmosphere was engulfed with a noxious odour of charred cigarette,
hurricanes of venomous wind annihilated palpable organisms in the vicinity.
and when i burnt infinite leaves of my immaculate heart,
there was a mystical aroma that imprisoned the ambience,
it was a smell that portrayed sacrosanct love,
it was an insatiable odour of her mesmerizing soul thoroughly entwined in mine.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010011110010 1011100011101110 101011101010 110000010110101010 01110101111101010 111001001111 101110111101001 110101011101 110011010011101 100110101001 111001101101 1101001011011 0100010010101111 10010011110100 11010101111010010 0101101011111011010 111011011111011101 1001010111011010 010101101011101 10110010100100100000100 011110011101001 11010001010100100 11011011001 111010011010011000101 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,499 |
Words | 241 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 5, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 52 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 247 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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