Analysis of Heat
Hilda Doolittle 1886 (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) – 1961 (Zurich)
O wind, rend open the heat,
cut apart the heat,
rend it to tatters.
Fruit cannot drop
through this thick air--
fruit cannot fall into heat
that presses up and blunts
the points of pears
and rounds the grapes.
Cut the heat--
plough through it,
turning it on either side
of your path.
Scheme | AAX XXAXXX AXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001 10101 11110 1101 1111 1101011 110101 0111 0101 101 111 1011101 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 278 |
Words | 55 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 11, 2023
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