Analysis of Shadow And Light



The time between land and sea
Living out life in the reckoning
Of cells and sands
So removed from God's expansion
So near creation
What is there to remind us of
The sun or the holy palms
Mired on the restless dune
Shifting like shapes
In the murky deep
Just beyond the reef
The faint scent of lemonade
Or the scratch of the wind
On a popcorn sky
Let us forget
All that we know
And get down to
The business
Of shadow and light


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Poetic Form
Metre 0101101 101100100 1101 10111010 11010 11110111 0110101 110101 1011 00101 10101 0111101 101101 1011 1101 1111 0111 010 1101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 407
Words 85
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 340
Words per stanza (avg) 85
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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