Analysis of Fifty Caliber Memories
Here, overexposed
to our Corsairs strafing fire
landing craft beached
took fire
leaving charcoal body remnants
wrapped in warping steel
yawning
fire white
flaming
like Chrysanthemum petals
held in the rising sun.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFGFHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001 11011010 1011 110 1011010 10101 10 101 10 1010010 100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 202 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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