Analysis of Shooting star
Nearly half a hundred now
With a shooting star
I celebrated
I'll never see it again
Never with these eyes
The night is too dark
And the air too chill
But the shooting star stays warm
In the walls of my hardened skull
White as air in the burning sun
If I could choose a good day
It would be this one
For today I saw a shooting star
Today, today in my mind again
But I will never see it with these eyes
Never again
I'm still grateful
Still glad for it stays
In my minds inner eye I wish upon a shooting star
I wish to see it in the sky
so far away from my eyes
No lie.
And I did not expect it or pray for it but I get it.
I get it now.
I saw it. Space.
All I ever needed to know.
Devine timing as I opened my curtains on a cold, dark lonely night.
It was perhaps just me and God sharing a shooting star with the giant telescopes and the computers recording yet again.
Recording like a memory.
I rewind back time and see it again.
I wonder if it is I that should give it a name.
I wonder. The wonder of the sky?
Wonderer of minds? Mine and Gods.
My shooting star... never killed anyone
But it breaks my heart that I'll never see it with these eyes.
Never again.
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Metre | 1010101 10101 1100 1101101 10111 01111 00111 1010111 00111101 11100101 1111011 11111 101110101 010101101 1111011111 1001 1110 11111 01110111010101 11111001 1101111 11 011101111111111 1111 1111 11101011 011011101101011101 1101110110010110101000010010101 01010100 1101101101 1101111111101 110010101 111101 110110110 11111111011111 1001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,163 |
Words | 257 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 36 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 893 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 241 |
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Written on February 10, 2023
Submitted by heathert.34240 on February 10, 2023
Modified on March 21, 2023
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