Analysis of Event on Mauna Loa
A fallen seed
from yesternight's bright flower
tumbles amid discarded husks
and humbled trees before
the crimson river's splayed
and crackling knees.
The red flood drags its dense
demented wake--seething,
heaving, blacktopping
root and reed.
Bedfellows strange beneath
the field--cinder and seed.
However deep the bed,
at some appointed hour,
with waft of dew and brush of light
fanning desire,
the seed commands its pavement dome.
It gives.
And, as all hope by hope is healed,
the flower lives.
Scheme | ABCDAEFGGAHAIBJBKLML |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 0101 11110 10010101 010101 010101 0101 011111 010110 101 101 10101 011001 10101 1101010 11110111 10010 01011101 11 01111111 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 476 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 398 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 79 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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