Analysis of The Burning Bridge
When faith is abandoned
we live on old dreams
In time captured wastelands
barren demeaned
Believing the tattler
and spinner of lies
Desperation is sainted
epistles decry
“Music plays in keys of pain
shouting from below
Missals singed in pagan fire
ashes still aglow
Caught out on a bridge alone
burning from both ends
Martyred in our heresy
— darkness to befriend”
(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)
| Scheme | XAAXBXXX XCBCXXDX D |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111010 11111 01101 1001 010010 01011 010110 101 1010111 10101 1101010 10101 1110101 10111 10010100 10101 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 401 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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