Analysis of Life's Mystery Road
Life's Mystery Road
Let me show you the moon with all of its light
Let me show you the stars that glow in the night
We let them guide us from heaven above
But not all understand the message of love
The stars try to tell us what heaven may hold
But not to believe all we've been told
The moon tries to guide us on mystery roads
Past forests and swamps and croaking of toads
Thou night be not day and day not be night
We may not listen to those who are right
This road of travel is full of surprise
Till we open our eyes and see the sunrise
We may not understand the stars and the moon
As opposite as they are from our own high noon
Watch if we may as close as we can
For our very existence, it's where we began
Our journey of life as we know it now
And answers to questions, do we know how
To share life with others, not borrow of lease
For our guide be above us, let's live in peace
-----Walter Kielbowicz-----
Scheme | X AABBCCDDAAEEFFGGHHIID |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001 11110111111 11110111001 1111111001 1110101011 01111111011 111011111 01111111001 1100101011 1111101111 1111011111 1111011101 11101010101 1110101001 1100111110111 111111111 1101001011101 10101111111 0101101111 1111101111 110110111101 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 978 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 21 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 354 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 93 |
About this poem
Published in the book "Beyond the Stars" in 1995 and winner of an Editor's Choice Award by The National Library of Poetry.
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Written on October 21, 1994
Submitted by WallyK on November 28, 2021
Modified on April 21, 2023
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