Analysis of Second Sunlight



(Inspired by the virtual world, and a poet who drank too much)

Then as I was new and simple inside the second world
Beneath the climbing stars and sunny as the sky was bright
The land below a pixel heaven
God left me for a while
Newer in the depths of second time
And flattered between singing I was noble in the cavern town
And then under the dark, I grandly held my lover
In grips of biting desire
down deep in the spurious night

And then I was young and airy, acclaimed among music
Beside the noisy stage and bossy as the place was mine
With a life that is new once truly
Age had me smile and laugh
Rosy in the favor of my dreams
And blooming and shining I was queen and was pauper, time passed
I cried out Lord, the devils of the shade scratch hard and cold,
And the ending came sorely
In the dawn of another breath

The years had wings and were flying, they were dainty, like birds
Soaring up in the sky, their melody from my dreaming, they were mine
As I sang them, delightful and light
To blank out the sting
Each day among the second sunlight
And as I sought slumber the spirits were at war among another
Visions would open I saw envy in allies, the traitors
Moving near my rest and my fancy
Drinking all my light

My hands could not grasp this place, thoughts of real vitality
In the morning I lacked, and my evening was ice: I would fall
Escaping was always illusion
Trickery from the true
And the ache held fast through my knowing
I existed in the second life hiding agony
The first world crushing me, mortality taking my love
My angel stolen from crying arms
Off to where God lives


Scheme X XABXXXCCA XDEXXXXEX XDAFACXEA EXBXFEXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 01010100100101111 11111010010101 01010101010111 010101010 111101 100011101 0100110111000101 0110011101110 01110010 11001001 01111010010110 01010101010111 101111110 111101 100010111 010010111011011 11110101011101 0010110 00110101 01110010101011 10100111001110101 111101001 11101 11010101 01111001001101010 101101110010010 101110110 10111 11111111110100 001011011011111 01011010 100101 001111110 10100010110100 01110101001011 110101101 11111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,555
Words 307
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 9, 9, 9, 9
Lines Amount 37
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 253
Words per stanza (avg) 61
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Submitted by MoonInworld on May 15, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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