Analysis of December in Miami



December in Florida is lonely.
Hot southern sun never yields
to soft, beautiful snow.
Red and green adorn downtown buildings,
but the ground is void of white.
"The houses are jungles of light strands and tinsel,"
he says taking my hand. Watching
light flakes fall through my heart's window,
unable to touch the cold glass of home.
"Geography is destiny," I once learned.
This moment our destiny is a desert of palm and sun,
walking through Miami at noon.


Scheme ABCDEFGCHIJK
Poetic Form
Metre 0100100110 1101101 111001 101011110 1011111 010110111010 11101110 11111110 0101101111 01001100111 1101010010101101 10101011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 443
Words 81
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 358
Words per stanza (avg) 79
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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