Analysis of Ohio
Torn cotton clouds
Lit like lanterns by bolts of
Sunlight, their wispy wicks
Burn hot and high over muddy rivers
And black asphalt mirrors
Factory fumes like Marlboro reds
Trail fiery and forgotten into the
Forest's knotted, dirty hair
Where they fall asleep in
A warm bed of clay-choked soil.
A redtail circles the dull
Brown of unshorn fields, waiting
For rabbits to emerge and
Sweep them away like
A late April chill-
The sort that lifts your head
From the low window of a car
And lets you forget the snow
Even as the white of the sunlit clouds
Makes you remember it
As they stroll idly through the sky
Seeming to touch your flesh with the breeze
Scheme | AXXBB XXXXXXXXXXXXXAX XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 1110111 11101 1101101010 01110 100111001 11000010010 1010101 111010 0111111 011001 111110 1101010 11011 01101 011111 10110101 0110101 101011011 110101 11110101 101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 628 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 15, 2 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on April 28, 2015
Modified on May 01, 2023
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