Analysis of Moon Song (1/22/89)
William Goresko 1951 (Philadelphia, PA) – 2008 (Willow Grove, PA)
Pocked and luminous sphere,
Who casts shining arrows down
Through the chill night sky
Upon this sad-faced clown,
Tell me, do you know why
We go round and round?
As your eye slowly rolls
Open and shut,
A shimmering halo all about,
Your impassive gaze freezes us tight,
Like deer in the glare
Of a car's headlight,
A melancholy race of miners you see,
Plumbing the Earth's entrails
In search of the key,
Passage to that place where you reside.
| Scheme | ABCBCDEFGHIHJKJL |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101001 1110101 10111 011111 111111 11101 111101 1001 010010101 101011011 11001 1011 0100111011 100110 01101 101111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 426 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 348 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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