Analysis of Smoke Rings
Smoke rings around my finger,
Deep in pensive thought am I.
Coffee stains upon paper sheets,
Where my feeling scribed now lie.
Pearls of words strung together,
Recount images of distant meorable past.
Bleed together in hazen vision,
By mood and moment now cast.
A feeling of gutted emptiness,
Evoked by each I scrawl.
What is purged and paged,
Is but smoke rings after all.
| Scheme | ABXB ACXC XDXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1101110 1010111 10101101 1110111 1111010 0110011011 101001010 1101011 010110100 011111 11101 1111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 362 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on January 29, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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