Analysis of Eternal Spark
Buried in the ashes
of life’s cremation
Human effort smolders
but embers await
Tomorrow today
today gone forever
Forever rekindled
—the smokescreen of fate
(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)
| Scheme | AXABXCXB C |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100010 11010 10101 11001 0101 011010 010010 0111 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 190 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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