Analysis of Grounded In The Night
He saw the world in burlesque,
light dancing upon the stage
The great blue fanning ocean
and rainbow colored pastie orbs
Caught between the music and the
shadow of the extreme
The curtain falling deftly marking
the beginning and the end
His dreams left to wander
search the darkness for a home
To strip off their makeup and surrender
what tomorrow will disdain
Where back in the footlights all chaos
and disorder will bawdily remask
Teasing what fantasy hides in fear
—as an Angel sheds its wings
(The New Room: November, 2021)
| Scheme | AXXBXXXX CXCXBAXB C |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101001 1100101 0111010 011011 10101000 11001 010101010 0010001 111110 1010101 111110010 101101 11001110 0010111 101100101 1110111 011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 516 |
| Words | 92 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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