Analysis of Stardust III



I reach out                                to you -to your essence grappling to any shred               of your memory.                               Your smile.           The light in              your eyes.

The tinkling of bells in                                                                                      your laugh. The soft rose that                     warmed all of the        freckles on your cheeks            when you                         blushed. Every feature.                                                    Faded.  Like an old picture.

Reaching and clawing through  every scene,                       every second.                                         Every memory of you.

Time stands still              and the world is silent. The stars hang, frozen        in their dark sky.

The universe is, and suddenly

My mind                                        blinks.

My heart beats on           like a drum and the wind                           rushes from my lungs at

lightspeed as a sickening

possibility comes to mind.

You are nothing more than s t a r d u s t .


Scheme X X X X A X X X X A
Poetic Form
Metre 111111110101101111001101011 0100110110111111010111111100101011110 10010110011001010010011 111001110011100111 01010100 111 1111101001101111 110100 0100111 11101111011111
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 1,351
Words 366
Sentences 16
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 50
Words per line (avg) 34
Letters per stanza (avg) 50
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Written on 2016

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 04, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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