Analysis of Someone
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
She lit a candle
Brighter than the sun
The candle was the heart;
At the heart of someone.
She held it to the curtain
And fire grew around
in rages and swirls;
in burns they found.
Why did she stay?
I do not know.
How did she bare its
surrounding glow?
For a minute
she breathed,
breathed in the sun.
And only then,
she knew what she'd done.
| Scheme | ABCBBDEDFGHGIJBKB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010 10101 010101 10111 1111010 010101 01001 0111 1111 1111 11111 0101 1010 11 1001 0101 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 341 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 17 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 261 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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Written on March 11, 2022
Submitted by heathert.34240 on March 11, 2022
Modified on March 22, 2023
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