Analysis of Carbon
The world spins you at sixty-six thousand miles
It wraps you around the sun from the moment of your birth.
You are traveling, my friend,
Even standing still
You are flying amongst the stars
Looming towards Lyra,
Venturing out past Vega,
You are constant movement, the second of the Galactic clock;
A gear everything might hang on.
There was a reason you were born
There is a reason why you take water within,
Feed on flesh and fruit,
Why your lungs bring in oxygen
Exhale a breath for the trees;
You are an essential part of the universe
Your mind directs the electrons, compose everything.
While you are standing there, archeologists are studying you
Looking through future wormholes, like tapes on fast forward -
You are a will-o-wisp! –
Like a moon pulling on the sea –
You are a celestial pendulum
Moving too too fast, wrapping the sun all up
And hurling a spiral arm around.
You spin the world at sixty-six miles per hour
A gear everything might hang on.
Scheme | xx xxxaaxB xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111101101 11101011010111 1110011 10101 11100101 100110 1001110 111010010100101 0110111 11010101 110101111001 11101 11110100 0101101 11101011010 110100100110 111101111001 101101111110 110111 10110101 110010100 10111100111 010010101 110111011110 0110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 941 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 7, 7, 7, 2 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
About this poem
Published in On The Platform, Waiting: a Writers Group Anthology. Smashwords. 2018
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Written on October 22, 2014
Submitted by Ariel on September 19, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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