Analysis of Elbow Poetry
That ink comes to a boil.
Letters stuck together
In each word of the page.
I take my pen to break
Them up a conductor
Of the idea which
Is taken out quickly
Before it has a chance,
In a way to burn me.
As my pen stirs the ink,
It lays next to the page.
I come back stirring it
To make sure that it's cooked.
Scheme | ABCDBEFGFHCIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 101010 011101 111111 110010 100101 110110 011101 001111 111101 111101 111101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 308 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 233 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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