Analysis of The Dragon's Fire Is Out



The progressive death knoll
sounded,
—a final serpent to mount

The excuses now
abandoned,
—the dragon’s fire is out

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)


Scheme XXX XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 001011 10 0101011 00101 010 0101011 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 153
Words 23
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 40
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 08, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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