Analysis of Flannery Falling
Memories, tingling like summer sunburn,
Bring me back to winter lips
Wafer thin and bruised:
Chapped cracked parchments pressing love
Against the Eiffel Tower's freezing iron.
Your cold eyes in winter constellation
Pierced me to the quick
Teasing butterflies up my back hoping
To flutter Spring among the snowflakes.
Then you said, Goodbye,
Turning them to crystals falling
| Scheme | ABCDAEFGHIG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001001101 1111101 10101 111101 01010101010 111010010 11101 101011110 11010101 1111 10111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 363 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 308 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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