Analysis of The Fuel and the Fire
The fire is insatiable,
It eats the fuel, then tastes the air.
I feed it more, and more, and more,
Its belly never growing full, it consumes without a care.
Its hunger is incessant,
It can nearly taste my flesh.
Each dancing flame is reaching for
My scent, my skin, my breath.
I am fuel before the fire.
It’s never satisfied.
Its flames fueled by desire,
It yearns, it burns, and so do I.
Scheme | ABCBDECFGHGI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010100 110101101 11110101 110101011010101 1101010 1110111 11011101 111111 111001010 11010 11101010 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 379 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 295 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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