Analysis of Ambrosial
a hollow agape
bowelfire stretches to heat palms
smoke curls through congealing air
permeating hair, a potpourri of kindling
diffuses into incendiary smalltalk,
old friend in older circumstances
laugh at past happenstance
as the flicker of shadows shiver against stone walls-
the crossbreeze seeps through cavecracks
intertwining immediate destiny
with night comraderie,
mutually seeing the world through the proscenium
of our shelter of ashless laughs-
in the mouth of experience
we make the taste last.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHBICJKLM |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01001 110111 11111 1001001110 01001010001 11010100 11110 101011100111 01111 1000100100 111 10001001101 11010111 00110100 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 490 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 424 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on September 29, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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