Analysis of Blinking Blue
My chest holds the key
life and death wide open
exposed winters nipple
snowflakes exhale frostbitten sun
Blue wisps from a chapped tongue
hissing at its prey of stone
embedded in fruitless soil
A lyrical chorus of its name
its birth and expiration date
| Scheme | XAXA XXXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 101110 011010 101101 111011 1011111 0100101 010010111 1100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 253 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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