Analysis of I Raised My Hand to Scarlet
I raised my hand to scarlet
Fleeting though as love can be
I took you like a poet does-
All in memory
And when the purple hour
Tumbles in the sky
I raise my hand to scarlet
And let the blood run dry
Until my heart is cooling
And flame has left my breath
The yellow in my fortitude
Courts the hand of death
When the dark encumbrance
Bathes me in its blues
I raise my hand to scarlet
And standing so accused-
I fumble in the darkness
The blackness all around
The scarlet has forsaken
And in the loss I drown.
Scheme | abcb xdAd xexe cxAx xxxx |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 1111110 1011111 11110101 10100 0101010 10001 1111110 010111 0111110 011111 0100110 10111 1011 11011 1111110 010101 1100010 010101 0101010 000111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 487 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on September 30, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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