Analysis of Song To Nature



Song To Nature

Today it was bright and the sun shone above
 The sky was an azure blue
 And the breeze from the east made a low hallowed sound
 as it blew all the leaves to their demise on the ground

From where I was sitting not a cloud was in view
 And yet a warm, wet rain hit the earth all anew
 The colors of springtime from purple to pink,
 seemed all faded and worn and a bit out of sync

There was a scent on the air of which I must say
 was like the rotting of flesh and of sleep out on the grass,
 while a sweet melody sort of just drifted past
 From where I was sitting I could see all who came

And they saw through me, my sorrow and shame
 There was gray slabs of nothingness scattered around
 Each encrypted a message so worldly profound
 And the blooming decorum was a sight to behold,

each a symbol of love to the memories untold
 And alas, a millipede on a road newly paved
 was the last thing I saw from the view at my grave


Scheme X XABB AACC XXXD DBBE EXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1110 01111001101 0111101 001101101101 1111011101101 111110101101 010111101101 0101111011 111001001111 110110111111 11010110111101 101100111101 111110111111 0111111001 111111001001 101001011001 0010010101101 1010111010001 00101101101 101111101111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 923
Words 190
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 122
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted by hitalot on June 09, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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