Analysis of So Close



I stare at the clear and star lit sky.
A meteor streaks downward to the earth
So close, so close I reach out,
I want to capture its brilliance,
So I can share it with you.
Two owls swoop down from an oak tree.
They abandon their lofty perch.
So close, so close I reach out,
I want to capture their beauty,
So I can share it with you.
Moonlight caresses all that it touches.
I close my eyes, thinking of you.
So close, so close I reach out,
I want to capture this moment,
So I can share it with you.
I open my eyes still thinking of you.
A fantasy that will never come true.
So close, so close I reach out,
I want to capture my dream
So I can share it with you.


Scheme abCdEfgCfEheCiEeeCjE
Poetic Form Etheree  (30%)
Metre 111010111 0100110101 1111111 11110110 1111111 11111111 10101101 1111111 11110110 1111111 101011110 11111011 1111111 11110110 1111111 1101111011 0100111011 1111111 1111011 1111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 641
Words 137
Sentences 11
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 501
Words per stanza (avg) 137
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Submitted on May 10, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kim Riggs

I am a mother of a beautiful young lady and a Mimma (grandmother) to a fantastic little man. I work for an ambulance company in NE Arkansas. I am constantly writing something. Many times, it is just random thoughts into a journal. I have written short stories and have been working on a fiction romance story. Poetry is something that comes to me at random times. The poems I have shared are not things I work on writing. They come to me spontaneously and are very rarely edited or changed. It I have not punctuated one, it is because, that's the way it went on paper. I hope you enjoy my work. Thanks more…

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