Analysis of HOT
JP. 1948 (United Kingdom)
As you grope for the clock in closest night
And there’s no breeze at all or any respite
It hot and so sticky as you lie to perspire
Just a little cool balm is all you require
But the window is shut and locked down fast
And the sky just outside is grey overcast
So you pace the cold floor to cool your feet down
Noting how quiet the night with no traffic sound
It was hot to begin with so you slept in the raw
The idea unsound because love wanted you more
That time spent embracing as skin welds together
A pleasure destroyed, a curse upon weather
As you wander the house in the heat of the night
You pray for the morning and tomorrows new light
So you sit in the shower and set it on cold
On these long hot summers decide you’re not sold
But now you are cooler and crawl back to bed
As you find someone’s moved to your side instead
So you push them away take your territory back
All you want is some sleep and a space in the sack
And as you lie down you begin to perspire
Your skin is ablaze and it feels like wet fire
Then you hear the buzz of an unwelcome midge
And decide it is cooler in front of the fridge
So you pick up a pillow and decamp to white goods
As you see the heat lightning crack over the woods
And with the door open cool from Frigidaire
Head down on the pillow enjoying cool air
You close tired eyes to drift off to cool sleep
And you try all you know but can count no more sheep
Much cooler by now but all thought of sleep gone
As you remember you can’t sleep if the light is left on.
Scheme | AXBCDDXX XXCCAAEE FFGGBCHH IIBXJJXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010101 01111111010 110110111101 10101111110 1010110111 0011111110 11101111111 101100111101 1111011111001 0010010111011 111010111010 01001010110 111001001101 11101000111 111001001111 1111101111 11111001111 1111111101 111101111001 111111001001 01111101101 111010111110 11101110101 01111001101 1111010001111 111011011001 010110111 11101001011 11101111111 011111111111 11011111111 11010111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,487 |
Words | 310 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 298 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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