Analysis of Light Dances on the Ceiling
Light dances on the ceiling
as remnants of a feeling
stay locked up in my mind
Despite what my belief means
there’s an ambiance that convenes
upon places only I can find
And still clinging to these thoughts
while wondering over lingering lots
of different space-times left behind
Those lights may shimmer and fade
but the shards of feeling don’t evade
incorporation into psyche newly aligned
(to illuminate a focus becoming refined)
Scheme | AABCCBDEBFFBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 1101010 111011 0111011 11100101 011010111 0110111 1100101001 110011101 1111001 101110101 001001101001 1010001001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 436 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 356 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
About this poem
Since everyone seems to do it, I thought I’d try writing in the first person. This is nothing I wrote recently but I remember car headlights 'dancing' on my living room ceiling from the traffic always passing -as the traffic of my thoughts were also passing by.
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