Analysis of Castles made
soft light falls
in golden hues
white crystals take fire
in breaking dawn
bright sounding laughter
on gentle breeze
of innocent joy
growing louder
eyes quickly glancing
with newest seeing
discovering footsteps
their changes made
thoughts are dancing
through simple visions
of shaping changing
of what might be
fingers tiny
exploring touching
shaping forming
thoughts burst free
see visions
hands then forming
building the shapes
of youthful dreams
skin is cooling
breeze is a growing
flowing more quickly
across the sand
fire is fading
growing dimmer
in distant darkness
upon the sea
dark high castles
steal the daylight
and the warmth
of the day
waves once lapping
now are rolling
with foam breaking
and growing high
water does slowly
at the dreams eat
foaming over
erasing away
in empty darkness
restless ocean
waves caressing
smoothing all away
at days ending
in growing darkness
dreams are gone
as never were
Scheme | XXAB AXXA CCXX CDCE ECCE DCXX CCEX CAFE XXXG CCCX EXAG FXCG CFBA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 0101 110110 0101 11010 1101 11001 1010 11010 11010 01001 1101 1110 11010 11010 1111 1010 01010 1010 111 110 1110 1001 1101 1110 11010 10110 0101 10110 1010 01010 0101 1110 101 001 101 1110 1110 1110 0101 10110 1011 1010 01001 01010 1010 1010 10101 1110 01010 111 1100 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 949 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 52 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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