Analysis of sun down the moon rises



sun down the moon rises
another night you disdain my vices
again trying to elude your feeling
sun up is full of surprises

the juxtaposition of us is appealing
you envision scenes of us on the ceiling
remnants of the piquancy from a cloud
she spends the next few days concealing

you buzz sweet nothings that should not be
     said aloud
but when named we are disavowed
the bugs you are infested by never were very
     fond of me
howbeit you were evermore proud

and i was never good at poetry
and your songs are always marginally off key
and it's agonizingly hard to see
but when the sun goes down and our eyes
     begin to turn to our love, i know i'll get
     down on one knee


Scheme AABX BBCB DCCDDC DDDXXD
Poetic Form Tetractys  (30%)
Metre 110110 0101101110 0110101110 11111010 00010111010 10101111010 10101101 110111010 111101111 101 1111101 0111010110010 111 110101 0111011100 01111100011 0110000111 1101110101 011111011111 1111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 684
Words 132
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 6, 6
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 133
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted by street.c4rp on April 24, 2022

Modified on March 28, 2023

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