Analysis of Heaven Lost



At three in the morning
 The stardust falls-
 On my hand like a tempest
 Crashing to the shores of a fragile land
 Breaking and washing over, like a spirit
 Haunting the shadows of sunless moons-
 The bedfellows of history
 Now they cleave, now they carve
 Mold and undo what art can only try-
 To reforge out of ashes-
 Out of the dust of falling stars
 Twinkle then and rupture the ether-
 That heavenly hold that keeps your spells
 In the place God carved for the broken hearted
 Tell them my name and claim
 What I gave so willingly
 And judge me as harsh as the broken felon
 That undid his own heaven with ease.


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Poetic Form
Metre 110010 011 1111010 1010110101 10010101010 1001111 0101100 111111 1001111101 111110 11011101 101010010 110011111 00111101010 111101 1111100 01111101010 101111011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 600
Words 114
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 479
Words per stanza (avg) 114
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Submitted on August 22, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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