Analysis of Moonlight
Silver-blue and exquisite
they pour from a summer sky
drowning the night with a heady perfume
daring me to fly
soaking the world in their milky light
the moonbeams slip softly down
I can almost taste them,
but instead I write.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010100 1110101 1001101001 10111 100101101 011101 11111 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 219 |
Words | 41 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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