Analysis of lightning comes like a woman with a blue past
Sviatoslav Hurhura 1991 (Ukraine)
lightning comes like a woman with a blue past
she lost the flaming lambs
that grazed in the immediate harbor
the roofs are like abandoned skulls of giant snails
the rustling of leaves impregnates even men
a boy on the street contemplates the end of the sky
the guard of the sawmill feeds the dogs
by what his wife prepared
he says: “what a beautiful sky
I want to pay for it!"
then it was said
"already paid"
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110101011 110101 1100010010 011101011101 0101101101 011011001101 01101101 111101 11101001 111111 1111 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 417 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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