Analysis of Velvet Moon
Velvet moon
rays cascading down
caressing so softly, your skin,
I could scream.
Dressed in nothing
but the moonlight,
wrapped in folds of silk and sin,
there, you dream.
| Scheme | XXAB XXAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 10101 01011011 111 1010 101 1011101 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 170 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Written on 2019
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 06, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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