Analysis of New Geography
Glowing embers nip, like carrion birds, this cage of scorching flesh
Spastic ticks map a new geography on skin
but this crucible holds no rebirth
Follow the twisting river deltas
Trace along the ridge of mountains newly molded
from melted fat and sinew
Allow your gaze to track to the awful, untouched face
No flame-wrought sculpting to mar this anachronistic epitaph
of the time before the flame
save eyes that hold in blasted memory
all the fire took
Scheme | ABCDEBFGHIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111001111101 11101010011 111001101 100101010 101011101010 110101 0111111010011 11110111001010 1010101 1111010100 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 442 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 371 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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Written on November 03, 2021
Submitted by lameinsane on November 04, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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