Analysis of The day of the eclipse



We drove all night long to go see the solar eclipse
The kids were peacefully asleep in the rear seat
 At dawn we finally reached the promontory
 Many had set up camp to get together here
 Such as the hot coffee, the ambience was friendly

This is a day that I will always remember
 Not the eclipse itself, but this magic moment
 All these unknown people gathered on a hilltop
 Who came from several lives and from different places
 Just together to share few seconds of a dream.

When darkness plunged hill in the supernatural
 all admiring glances converged into a beam
 as if they recovered inner joy and wonder
 as children reach out to catch the moon in the sky
 or to catch the boats on the ocean horizon
 because they have not yet learned the earthly limits

Rise by feeling yourself and feeling the others
 And progress pursuing the same goal together
 Like on this holy hill, the day of the eclipse
 All these people gathered turned towards the heavens
 All these people looking in the same direction


Scheme AXBBX BXXXC XCBXDX XBAXD
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111101001 010100010011 111100101 101111110101 1101100100110 11011111010 100101111010 11011010101 1111010110010 101011110101 11011000100 101010010101 111010101010 110111101001 111011010010 011111101010 111001010010 01010011010 111101011001 111010101010 111010001010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 988
Words 180
Sentences 2
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 6, 5
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 202
Words per stanza (avg) 45
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Submitted on September 26, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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