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
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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