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
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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Steven Louis Chapman

Steven was adopted, his biological father was an English professor who had an affair with a student. Writing poetry is an outlet for his expression of love. A hopeless romantic in search of his soul mate. (it changes from now and then) He hopes to capture the girl of his dreams through poetry. Visit my blog at http://thedailypoetrss.blogspot.com/ for the latest up to date poems. more…

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