Analysis of Veiled



Silver rings upon your fingers
fingers trace my collarbone
silver’s soft, but gold lingers.
It reminds me of our home.

Where fleeting moonlight filters in,
through old windows veiled in lace,
over sheets, and over skin,
softly caressing your face.

Then, gold pours in once the sun
awakes form dreaming far beneath
a cloudless, moonlit horizon,
and falls like feathers on your cheeks.

An endless dance of day and night,
like hostages, inside we stay,
‘neath rays of gold and silver bright,
with you shall I forever lay.


Scheme AXAX BCBC DXDX EFEF
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 10101110 101110 1011110 10111101 1101100 1110101 1010101 1001011 1110101 1110101 0101010 01110111 11011101 11000111 11110101 11110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 525
Words 102
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 103
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Written on 2019

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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