Analysis of Cycles
The sun molds life into shale, into clay
Molecular sculptures
that mold and decay.
As bone churns to dust,
And blood bleeds to ore,
thirsty weeds spring
through cracks in the floor.
They swallow them whole, the peasants, the kings
The damned and forgotten
And holiest things.
This death begets life
Their pain is no more
The veins of the earth
Bleed into the core.
| Scheme | AXAXBXB CXCXBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111011011 010010 11001 11111 01111 1011 11001 1101101001 010010 01001 11011 11111 01101 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 369 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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