Analysis of Fireman



When fire sits on top of the head
Smoke can hardly enter the nostrils
Feet walking on coals
And fire bugs bite

The fireman loves
He puts on the axe in hand
Better than class rings
Even other rings

Fires burn when they do a job
How the man can burn without
Restriction can burn a man about
Head to toe

The soul is made pure by fire
Man loves to burn
It is even his desire
Afterwards he must
Needs be tended to

If not
The fire has yet a job to do
To burn a man through and through
If so

Hold him dear
In the fire he bore many tears
In this fashion
He lives all his years

What is fire?
It's much like Our Father
Or yet
He be the fireman
And we on fire


Scheme XXXX XXAA XBBC DXDXE XEEC XXFX DDXFD
Poetic Form Tetractys  (43%)
Etheree  (37%)
Metre 110111101 111010010 11011 01011 0101 1110101 10111 10101 10111101 1011101 010110101 111 01111110 1111 11101010 10011 11101 11 010110111 1101101 11 111 001011101 0110 11111 1110 1111010 11 11010 01110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 632
Words 141
Sentences 2
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 73
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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