Analysis of Barren
Burning winds ravage this desert,
sand swallowing my mind,
cutting from me all ties that bind,
hope is eaten by flames under a blazing sun,
no oasis to be found,
all that is left is emptiness,
a void shell that blows away in the night.
| Scheme | ABBCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10110110 110011 10111111 111011100101 1010111 11111100 0111101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 229 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on March 20, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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