Analysis of Captain’s Moon



His cold heart, my initial thought
Too focused on the moon
A fool to ignore the light
Knowing there’s more to night
How a broken heart can also do


Scheme ABCCD
Poetic Form Cinquain  (40%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11110101 110101 0110101 101111 101011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 169
Words 34
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 116
Words per stanza (avg) 29

About this poem

When you feel one thing… when it’s really something else. How broken hearts can be seen as a coldness

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Written on July 26, 2022

Submitted by Kccarter1118 on November 18, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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