Analysis of Button Mushrooms
On cloud-pressed evenings
you hear them being delivered
when the choral earth
is soft and swelling.
A creaking growth
a crèche of mycelia
confined in dark dilations.
Together hydrous hyphae hum
while fungal buds umbrella
shaping wet white moons
from a spore bearing fusion.
They appear, glowing-
fat with light, new babies,
each button a bombshell
of umami
in the endless labor
of a birthing mud.
Scheme | AXXB XCA DCXX BXCDXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 11110010 10101 11010 0101 01111 01011 0101011 1101010 10111 1011010 10110 111110 11001 11 001010 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 381 |
Words | 66 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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