Analysis of stars

Alexandra 1996 (Van Nuys, CA)



there were no stars in the sky
i asked you to fix it
your fist kissed my face
and i grinned
there were stars dancing in your pupils
and blood dripping from your knuckles
i do not remember the name for these stars
but i think it rhymed with love


Scheme ABCDEEFG
Poetic Form
Metre 1011001 111111 11111 011 101100110 01101110 11101001111 1111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 248
Words 54
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 195
Words per stanza (avg) 50

About this poem

it’s about how someone can romanticise anything if they love someone

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Written on April 17, 2023

Submitted by caysie2009newman on May 10, 2023

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