Analysis of Earth's Last Breath
Diminos 2005 (New York)
O’ lonely stone, lying there;
Once a mountain you did wear;
People went to stop and stare,
But now your earth is cold and bare.
O’ mighty oak, so tall and grim;
Did they go to chop and trim?
And turn you soft and cut you slim,
Until there stands a mound of limb?
O’ reckless rapids, whirling fast;
We all know you were harassed;
If you stop, we raise the mast!
Take a moment, let time pass;
And last of all, the bitter breeze;
Called out to skylines, moaning please;
Quarried, rotting, and disease;
Nature died with one last wheeze.
Scheme | AAAA BBBB CCCX DDDD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1101101 1010111 1011101 11111101 11011101 1111101 01110111 01110111 11010101 1111001 1111101 1010111 01110101 1111101 110001 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 523 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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