Analysis of Emerald Moth



I saw you on the ground.
You were so pretty,
but I frowned.
When I poked you,
You did not move around.
You only sat there.
Frozen on the ground.
You never made a sound.
Or if you ever could
it would be one that
I could have never understood.
For you spoke in tongue
of time stilled awe.
Beauty turned the hourglass still.
Like it often does.
Right before
it falls.


Scheme ABACADAAEFEGHIJKL
Poetic Form
Metre 111101 10110 111 1111 111101 11011 10101 110101 111101 11111 1111001 11101 1111 1010101 11101 101 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 348
Words 72
Sentences 11
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 280
Words per stanza (avg) 72
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Submitted on October 16, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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