Analysis of The Fuel and the Fire



The fire is insatiable,
It eats the fuel, then tastes the air.
I feed it more, and more, and more,
Its belly never growing full, it consumes without a care.
Its hunger is incessant,
It can nearly taste my flesh.
Each dancing flame is reaching for
My scent, my skin, my breath.
I am fuel before the fire.
It’s never satisfied.
Its flames fueled by desire,
It yearns, it burns, and so do I.


Scheme ABCBDECFGHGI
Poetic Form
Metre 01010100 110101101 11110101 110101011010101 1101010 1110111 11011101 111111 111001010 11010 11101010 11110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 379
Words 74
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 295
Words per stanza (avg) 74
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Submitted by WritingNoob on October 29, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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