Analysis of A Song Across Space



We do not speak of immortal beings
How can I speak of one that I do not know?
However, when I see her walk across the sand  in my dreams,
I know she is ethereal by any definition of the word

When the moonlight shines on the cresting waves,
And the seagulls sleep unseen,
That’s when I see her in the clouds,
Staring down at me like I am nothing

I am a grain of sand to her
And she is a star to me, or a distant planet

We are beautiful in our own right

I love the stars
And she loves the beach
To each, we are divine

So when I see her walk across the sand
Upon my beaches
To me, she walks on clouds
Upon a red carpet of galaxies and solar systems

She whispers in the night
And her voice is a song, one I know but do not understand
It tells me that I am lovely to her
And how could I argue with such a creature?

We cannot speak of immortal beings
There are none any more, but she is my religion
For she calls me god, and she is my goddess
I will worship her
I do worship her
I cannot stop worshipping her

I won’t
Until my dying breath, when I sacrifice myself to her as my last wish.
To see her in her everlasting beauty as my eyes close
And I become the sand she walks upon in my dreams


Scheme AXBX XXCX DX E XXX FXCX EFDD AXXDDD XXXB
Poetic Form
Metre 1111101010 11111111111 10111010101011 11110100110010101 101110101 001101 11110001 1011111110 11011110 0110111101010 1110001011 1101 01101 111101 1111010101 01110 111111 010110110001010 110001 00110111111101 1111111010 01111011010 1101101010 1111011111010 11111011110 11100 11100 11011000 11 01110111101101111 11000010101111 0101011101011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,200
Words 266
Sentences 4
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 2, 1, 3, 4, 4, 6, 4
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 102
Words per stanza (avg) 28

About this poem

Another sapphic love poem

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Written on 2021

Submitted by ShyDiaz on November 19, 2021

Modified on April 22, 2023

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