Analysis of Burning place



City towers suffocating smoking drifts
Mingles with, urban sprawls until erased

Town criers shouting louder from these towers
To those ignoring fires, beneath ablaze

Scorching cancers underline wild flaming spreads
Commoners quickly turn their heads blindly by the haze

Ruling class, Liberal Leftist politicians don each a smiling mask
 Their tragedy corrosions spreading, our lives left with bitter taste

The hands that choke away our liberties, day by day
To an existence lesser among this nation once ringing freedom now Obama’s burning place


Scheme XA XB XB XA XX
Poetic Form Etheree  (20%)
Metre 1010100101 1011010101 1110101110 11010100101 1010101101 1001011110101 10110010010110101 110011010111101 01110110100111 1101010011101101011101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 538
Words 83
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 46
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 91
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Nighttiger

A fortyish native born all American man. Married twice and for the last time. I have four children; Three daughters and one son that are all over the age of eighteen. I also have two grandchildren; one three years old and one nine months old. Inspired by God, tragedy, life's experiences and then a fairy tale love. I never intentionally set out to write poetry, but "She" inspired me. "She" meaning the love of my life. That love is a passion that after thirteen years still grows stronger each and every day. It eventually had to be put into writing. As I wrote poetry to her, she encouraged me to approach other subjects. Doing so brought me to discover that poetry could wash away the bitter tastes of life (suicide, cancer, and divorce) that were still living like demons inside me. So when poetic therapy brought those impish fiends to a stalemate, I began to experiment more. Creating fictional characters and situations within my works. The support of this online community has inspired me even further to continue to hone my writing skills giving the readers the best that I can offer. Thanks to all you out there in Lulu land. more…

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