Analysis of Circus
Light gives me what it has to give.
Rain is falling beneath my feet.
The moon has dropped
From the skies at night.
The table by my bedside is alive-
Aa a small city, overpopulated.
A brush resting on my vanity
Appears to be on fire,
Burning away the midnight hours.
I feel heat emanating
From an open window-
I must say I am afraid.
I recall the day I cried
When the circus came to town-
Clowns did not amuse me.
I rode a broken horse on a creaky carousel.
Stars are pouring from the skies
Like fairy dust, afire.
I wonder how I got here
Entangled in this web.
I open my eyes
And let my spirit go astray,
As I collect the pieces
Of my shattered dreams.
I throw their remnants
Upon that table by my bedside
And watch the circus come alive.
Scheme | XXXX AXBXX XXX CXBX DXXX DXXX XCA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 11100111 0111 10111 010111101 1011001000 011011100 0111110 10010110 111100 111010 1111101 110111 1010111 111011 110101101010 1110101 110101 1101111 010011 11011 01110101 1101010 11101 11110 01110111 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 732 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 3, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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