Analysis of The Northern Lights



The northern lights
painted the sky
with stories we
hadn't heard of yet.
We learned back,
letting the colours
wash over us
and paint new dreams
for us to follow,
covid is bad
for our lungs
for our heart
and for us.


Scheme ABCDEAFGHIJKF
Poetic Form
Metre 0101 1001 1101 10111 111 1001 1101 0111 11110 111 1101 1101 011
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 216
Words 47
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 168
Words per stanza (avg) 42

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this poem is about covid 19

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Submitted by faaz_h on January 06, 2022

Modified on April 27, 2023

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