Analysis of The Lightning Hunt
What does it feel like to be so wanted?
Wanted way down deep
To have name imagined you
in all your liquidness
To have name pocket you
a bit beyond those graves
To have a name center you
in the spinning wheels of Cecily
To have a monster without a hint
lift your flawless skin
It is a Netherworld
A curing thing
To survive so much, these perfect moments
I hunt like the swallows...
In stirs of black and gray
| Scheme | XX AB AB AX XX XX B BX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111110 10111 1110101 0111 111101 010111 1101101 0010111 110100101 11101 11010 0101 1011110110 111010 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 393 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted on April 26, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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