Analysis of these winter engines



each night
as wellingtons sleep
the equalliser counts away the score

and when,
from electric clarion call
in ghost darkness
the daily balance is wound,
the morning gathers up it's virgin altars
and breathes snowpure at the earth

this transitory firmament in constant flux
the great unending
and so,
as such;

the melt
is measured out
in spoons of sunbright morning.
in spoons
the sunbright morning
lends impatience to the melt.

(these winter engines power silent changes in the gloom
and drive the shining poem in my veins)


Scheme XXX XXXXXX XAXX BXAXAB XX
Poetic Form
Metre 11 111 0110101 01 10101001 0110 0101011 01010111010 011101 110010101 01010 01 11 01 1101 011110 01 0110 1010101 11010101010001 0101010011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 502
Words 88
Sentences 3
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 6, 4, 6, 2
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 85
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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