Analysis of Feeling the Heat
Cicadas screech the sound of summer,
signalling a long, hot day ahead.
Shall I find some shade?
Know I’ll find a good book.
Or …
better still –
write some poetry.
How I love to lounge in nature’s shade,
under weeping willow's sweeping loft.
Shall I lie and dream?
I’d surely fall asleep.
But …
better still –
write some poetry.
The songsters’ chorus joins cicadas.’
All wonder how long I’ll play squatter.
Shall I defy them,
and leave them to their peace?
No …
better still –
write some poetry.
Too soon, noon’s heat rays find and stab me.
Stingrays ampullae of Lorenzini –
a million sensors
sensing my discomfort.
So …
better not –
write some poetry.
© Jan 25
Scheme | axbxxCD bxxxxCD xaxxeCD ddxxexDx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101110 100011101 11111 111011 1 101 11100 111110101 10101101 11101 110101 1 101 11100 01101010 110111110 11011 011111 1 101 11100 111111011 1110010 01010 101010 1 101 11100 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 702 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 8 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
About this poem
A simple ditty written in seconds when I was very hot last week.
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