Analysis of The Cycle
The heat and the flames,
oh the heat.
The forrest now suffers defeat.
Though the fire killed a few,
the forrest will now start anew.
Scheme | ABBCC |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Cinquain (40%) |
Metre | 01001 101 01011001 1010101 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 128 |
Words | 25 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 5 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on November 01, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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