Analysis of Burning Bee
Her wild eyes and timber bones
Quake at the rush of wind
Her petals that fell from the tallest mast
Rise and fall at their own wistful whim
Deep and drowning within the blue
She whittles white bark from skeleton trees
I know it's true it's true it's true
That she will always rush away from me
Cast upon her struggling shore
I flounder in the foam
Like the ladybug and burning bee
I will forever within her roam
I know she will be here when the sky blackens
I know she will see me and ignore my glances
And even if I splinter from the rock
and pour into ashes
I will love and love and love forever
Until she falls upon me
and smashes
Scheme | XXXX AXAB XCBC XDXX XBD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110101 110111 0101110101 101111101 10100101 111111001 11111111 111110111 10101001 110001 10100101 110100101 11111110110 111111001110 0101110101 010110 1110101010 0111011 010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 615 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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