Analysis of Ambergris City
Felt no pain against the water,
the tea-cup sky was a turquoise colour in its wrath
illuminating ambergris city in spot checks below.
The sperm whale population was in decline.
Little or nothing remained of former commitments.
A bitter legacy consumed itself in half-truths
against the sound of upturned lies.
Winding alleys come as the conscience of well plaid cities.
are open zippers revealing the indecent poor.
The fire hydrant lives of cellar inhabitants strain these urinals
for wretches sniffing out the edge of completed walls.
Gray nuisances, the men in asbestos overalls finding their way
through the apricot fire of dark, eclipse Park Plazas with the
stately elegance of empty dinner dishes or red trash cans
against indentured snow.
Scheme | XXA XBXX XXBX XXXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101010 011110101011 01001001001101 0110101001 1011001110010 0101000101011 0101111 10101101011110 1101001000101 0101011100100111 111010110101 1100010010101011 101010110111010 1010011010101111 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 740 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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