Analysis of That one light
Once upon a cold dark evening,
The moon and stars were brightly shining,
I laid upon the cold damp earth,
On frozen, frosty grass reclining.
I gazed upon the winter sky,
Lifting up my weary eyes,
Upon the vast eternal expanse,
Watching meteors flying by.
Like diamonds soaring through the sky,
They carved the dark with light,
And blended with the celestial host,
Throughout that starlit night.
They hardly caught my sullen eyes,
I barely was enticed.
So small, so dim, so minuscule,
They hardly drew my sight.
As I glanced upon the sky,
I saw with my two eyes,
A shining sphere of sapphire light,
Blitz through the black and gloomy night.
It made a bright and brilliant show,
With such ethereal, angelic glow,
As it crossed that vast expanse,
Into the great unknown.
"I hope to be like that one light."
I told myself out loud,
"Though encompassed by the night,
My light will shine unbound!"
Scheme | AAXA BCDB BEXE CXXE BCEE FFDX EXEX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101110 010101010 11010111 110101010 11010101 1011101 010101001 10100101 11010101 110111 010100101 011101 11011101 110101 1111110 110111 1110101 111111 010111001 11010101 11010101 110100101 1111101 010101 11111111 11111 1010101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 903 |
Words | 192 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
An actual event which occurred, when I was watching a meteor show one winter evening. I also drew some inspiration from Poe's "Evening Star."
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Written on March 01, 2015
Submitted by JD.Mags on November 03, 2022
Modified on March 22, 2023
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