Analysis of The Fires Glow
Celestial things massacre time
with their importance
Like Carlos Santana playing
‘Black Magic Woman’
Earthly things embody the moment
within their transformation
The caterpillar—the butterfly,
the wood before the fires glow
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)
| Scheme | XX XA XA XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011001 11010 11001010 11010 101010010 011010 0100010 01010101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 270 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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