Analysis of I come from afar

Royston 1946 (Reading)



Light through the darkness comes from afar
Shining in the night sky from every star.
travelling across such vast distances
and speaking into todays circumstances.

What are you saying to me, oh wondrous star?
What is the message that you have brought so far?
It speaks of distances beyond comprehension.
It speaks of the greatness of God’s creation.

We pass its starlight through a glass prism,
breaking it down into a rainbow like spectrum.
For the vastness of time and space could not
extinguish the brightness of that small dot.

That starlight had travelled at such a colossal pace
broadcasting its message through realms of space,
and it has landed here at my very front door
because it wants to tell me of so much more.

Myriads of sparkling gems each one glowing,
adorning the Universe and they are showing,
the glory of the heavens in which they dance
in synchronic harmony and brilliant performance.

Transcending vast distances their light has come
carrying a message from the Heavenly One.
Fingerprints from space enabling us to comprehend
their composition and size in the messages they send
.
Looking through space we travel back in time and
are able to see when the big bang first began,
A cataclysmic explosion beyond all imagination
the birth of the Universe and the moment of creation


Scheme AABB AACC DDEE FFGG HHXX DCII XXCC
Poetic Form
Metre 110101101 10001111001 1000111100 0100101100 11110111101 11010111111 11110001010 11101011010 111110110 10110101110 1010110111 0100101111 111101100101 101101111 011101111011 01111111111 111011110 01001001110 01010100111 0010100010010 01011001111 100010101001 101101001101 1010010010011 1 10111101010 110111011101 00100100110010 01101000101010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,305
Words 242
Sentences 13
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 9
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 176
Words per stanza (avg) 37

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Reflection on a bit of starlight captured by the Webb telescope

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Submitted by royston on May 21, 2023

Modified by royston on May 24, 2023

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