Analysis of The Canyon Sonnet
The Canyon Sonnet
Lovely and lithe the colors play smartly
In wonderful palette of sun born hues
I watch from the top this beauty partly
Because to miss this is naught but to lose
The canyon has ever been thus to we
Who in its shadow were given to dwell
Such stuff is that which allows us to see
Ever its story to finally tell
The light of the sun full well on the face
Of rocks that dazzle in shimmering peace
There is not speed to their natural race
Just wonderful heartfelt healing release
The canyon is power and true to form
Is the great upside to understood norm
©1/10/2013 by George W. Collett
| Scheme | A BCBCBDBDEFEFGG A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010 1001010110 0100101111 1110111010 0111111111 0101101111 101101011 1111101111 1011011001 0110111101 1111001001 1111111001 110011001 0101100111 101111011 1110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 586 |
| Words | 115 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 14, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on August 20, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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