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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