Analysis of Burned



The dead sunflower
caught on fire every few seconds
Dried, wilted petals
hung off the burned, cracked face of it

A deadly choking sound
came out of the sunflower
as it tried to cough out the hissing smoke,
the cherished life of a yellow flower, gone forever


Scheme AXXX XAXA
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 0110 1110100110 11010 11011111 010101 111010 1111110101 01011010101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 250
Words 47
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 104
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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