Analysis of Eternity Burns



Apocalypse kindles    
relighting the fire
Malignant denominators
melt from above
Savior disdained
pontificate’s stain
Tomorrow endemic
— in nuclear love

(The New Room: March, 2024)


Scheme AXABXXXB X
Poetic Form
Metre 0101 1010 0101 1101 1001 0101 01010 01001 0111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 190
Words 30
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 74
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 20, 2024

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