Analysis of Lakes Of Fire October, 2003
The California "lakes of fire" have a biblical connotation.
They're like a blazing funeral pyre: a hell on earth purgation.
The hungry monster's appetite is implacably voracious.
Consuming everything in sight,
it is greedy and rapacious.
The monster's coconspirator is the Santa Ana wind.
Generating cyclonic gore:
flagellating flames that exscind.
The monster's path is holocaust, a destructive conflagration.
Aggressively it does accost:
leaving the annihilation.
The heartless monster's preference is wholly indiscriminate.
For rich or poor no reverence,
it will simply obliterate.
The California "lakes of fire" have a biblical connotation.
They're like a blazing funeral pyre: a hell on earth purgation.
| Scheme | AA xbx xxb axa xxx AA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0010111010100010 110101001001111 01011011010 0101001 11100010 0111010101 10011 1111 0111100010010 01001101 1000010 010110011000100 11111100 1110010 0010111010100010 110101001001111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 693 |
| Words | 103 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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