Analysis of Shooting Stars
You passed in the same way
the comets surround the earth-
without touching it,
but leaving behind them
only shooting stars.
I would meet you,
I would be able to touch you,
But everything inside
would become suffering.
I prefer my solitude,
which is as elliptical as
an ordinary rock
and which is forgotten
on the seashore.
'Tis increasingly defined
by the waves.
I prefer that solitude,
Which is always
misapprehended
by the people around.
Day by day, it is
harder and harder for me
to understand
my inner being.
I enter the timeless realm of change
and I dissolve my memories
in a final wave,
which is a little more tuneful
until ceasing to exist.
Scheme | XXAXX BBXC DXXXX XX DXAX XXXC XXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110011 0100101 01101 110011 10101 1111 11110111 11001 101100 101110 11101001 11001 011010 101 1010001 101 101110 111 1 101001 11111 1001011 101 11010 110010111 01011100 00101 11010110 0110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 655 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 5, 2, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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