Analysis of A Starry Night
Singing,
singing songs,
let your wisdom roam the day,
you set your heart in colours; grey
and walked the feelings that
were brought from ages old.
Sending shivers of thrills
across the waves of gentle hills
in minds that loved your skills
in shades of spirits - grand.
And here I am inside ovations' stand.
Compassion's beauty you let free
to roam the nods of - I agree.
Your voice gave us chills,
sent ripples down our spines,
a story set in rhymes.
Singing,
singing songs,
firing Heaven's feathered ways,
multicoloured swirls of tones flicker in
the generosity, you Don, gave Vincent,
even though he wasn't present
but inside the past's pain,
lost beyond despair's soft rain,
music fashioned from fingers; light
as breath unseen.
And here I am dancing inside ovations' theme.
Compassion's beauty you let free
to roam the nods of - I agree.
A story set in rhymes.
All loved the tremors in your voice,
we sat in songs that did rejoice
and flapped rhythms through strings singing,
singing songs,
life was performed in souls
while rivers wept from eyes; closed
perhaps to your tune others proposed
and sighed.
Audiences everywhere
with your words
they too, in mind composed.
Singing,
singing songs,
throats were swallowing pain,
for they felt emotions, the same
and fell
into the melodies you released
for one who's now deceased.
Subtle rings slipped into subtle dreams,
I wonder here, sat in moments; silent,
how you bared your soul
to give a passionate whisper.
And here I am dancing inside ovations' smile.
Compassion's beauty is worthwhile,
we roam the nods of - I agree.
we listened,
we heard your timeless call
and we still sigh out
into a starry night.
Scheme | ABc cxxdd d ee FFdx G ABx xhhi ijxx FFG kk aBxllxxxl ABi xxmm x hxxn n fxxxj |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10 101 1110101 1111011 010101 011101 101011 01011101 011111 011101 0111010101 110111 11011101 11111 1101101 010101 10 101 1010101 1111100 0010011110 10111010 101011 101111 10101101 1101 011110010101 110111 11011101 010101 11010011 11011101 01101110 101 110101 1101111 011111001 01 100010 111 110101 10 101 101001 11101001 01 010100101 111101 101101101 1101101010 11111 11010010 011110010101 110111 11011101 110 111101 01111 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,599 |
Words | 286 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 18 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 5, 1, 2, 4, 1, 3, 4, 4, 3, 2, 9, 3, 4, 1, 4, 1, 5 |
Lines Amount | 59 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on August 13, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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