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
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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Modified on March 05, 2023

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William A. Kofoed

William A. Kofoed was born in Logan Utah. He now lives in Magna Utah. He was a member of Mormon Youth Chorus and the Jay Welch Chorale. He is a published photographer. He started writing poetry in high school and he has been published in Poetry Quarterly, Utah Life and The Route 7 Review. more…

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