Analysis of A burp
At the other end of the street
There is a car and someone is blowing its horn.
Green slime-worms crawling in and out from under and over it.
What happened?
Street fissures from volcanic eruption, open smoke, green fumes with glowing embers all around the car.
Who are they?
Two lovers thought to enfold
Trapped by earth's burp and imprisoned
In their embrace.
Douglas Noel
| Scheme | XX XA XX XAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 10101101 11010111011 111100011100101 110 110101010101111101010101 111 1101101 11110010 0101 1001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 382 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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