Analysis of "tan" revised
Washed pebbles on the beach,
waiting to turn to sand.
As of heaven GOD, a pelican
let us slip through his hand.
Sea breeze evensongs flow of the night,
strewn Angels peering strung from stars so bright.
Sunsets adulated shrines from above,
cocoons melt us together to form true love.
Prayers from vesper,
tan butterfly from the sand,
hovering over the covering,
of grass so high concrete shove,
become a statue of one.
Stare in my eyes for my soul to dare,
fly back in the grass I tried,
grasping your solace in my hands wings,
we fly away glad with surprise.
Scheme | XABA CCDD XAXDB XXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 101111 111010100 111111 1111101 1101011111 111101 01110101111 1110 110101 100100100 1111011 010111 101111111 1100111 101100111 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 543 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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