Analysis of a candle burns in the messenger's throat
Sviatoslav Hurhura 1991 (Ukraine)
a candle burns in the messenger's throat
he wants to say something
goes without touching the ground
because it wounds with claws
he is pushing away the frozen rain
comes to the house of a warm girl
opens his mouth and she blows out the candle
so that he could not say anything
| Scheme | XA XX X XXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010011 111110 1011001 011111 1110010101 11011011 10110111010 11111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 279 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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