Analysis of Wonder…

Wonder… 1950 (San Rafael CA)



It is late at night and
I look into a crystalline sky
And ponder upon my smallness

I realize the stars are
The music of the universe
I am but one note on the staff

And I am alone


Scheme XXX XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 111110 11010101 01001110 110011 0101010 11111101 01101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 182
Words 43
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 47
Words per stanza (avg) 13

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Watching the evening sky last summer

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Written on July 19, 2021

Submitted by meganl.48371 on October 28, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wonder…

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