Analysis of Ashes Sing
Bending that last letter,
like Sonny’s wailing G’
My final breath to rock the world,
old silence breaking free
All lines are set on fire,
the keyboard then explodes
The stage unhinged, the base is singed,
the harpist hits the road
Old memories pang, feelings twang,
the heat burns right from wrong
As words once old, renew again,
—and ashes sing their song
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)
| Scheme | AB XB AX XX XC XC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101110 11101 11011101 110101 1111110 01101 01010111 010101 11001101 011111 11110101 010111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 399 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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