Analysis of This Light!



This light!
Why do I forget it's there
When it's here
And everywhere I stare?

How come after I fall and incur guilt,
I see this light like a moon
In all the darkness of my filth?

One ray will save me
And my day,
It will keep me from sinning again.

If I am darkness
like the darkness of space,
God is like to the moon.

Doesn't that mean deception is everywhere
And false prophets are in bloom
That even a rainbow is a tomb?


Scheme XAXA XBX XXX XXB ACC
Poetic Form
Metre 11 1110111 111 01011 1110110011 1111101 01010111 11111 011 111111001 11110 101011 111101 1011010110 0110101 11001101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 407
Words 86
Sentences 6
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 65
Words per stanza (avg) 17

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Submitted by RonaldBunch on August 14, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ronald-Bunch

ronaldbunch.com He did volunteer work, goes to church, reads, and likes long walks. He's a self published writer and poet. He's getting his GED and will graduate at Grand Rapids (USA) community college. Activity: Ronald Lee Bunch published his poetry book called I Am A Man As I should be on create space September 1st, 2014 (Paper Back) and August 31, 2014 (Kindle Edition) Audio book is now available at amazon. Interests: Writing, reading, walking. Favorite book types: Fantasy and writer/author biographies. Some of the books he read: Mainspring (Clockwork Earth #1), The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia), The Holiness of God, The Outsiders, Clash of the Titans, Gulliver's Travels, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter #2), The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic, Crossfire, Outland, Krull, The Red King (Star Trek: Titan, #2), Icerigger #1, Spellsinger, Flinx's Folly (Pip & Flinx #9), Battle Surgeons (Star Wars: Clone Wars, #4), The Silmarillion, The Lord of The Rings, The Hobbit, David Copperfield. more…

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