Analysis of Sunsets
Although there is a beauty to a sunrise
The crispness of the newness of it,
sunsets have their beauty too
No matter what Dylan Thomas might say
The beauty of a day well spent
Sunsets come, fight as we may
But when it does I want to
Be bone tired exhausted
Be lovely bursting
Be completely bleed
Lips turning blue
Bone chilling cold
Teeth chattering
Fighting to keep swimming
At the end of the day
I want to meet my sunset
With this thirst for life
Drowned in an ocean of moments.
| Scheme | XXABX BAXCXAXCCBXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111010101 010101011 111101 1101101011 01010111 111111 1111111 1110010 11010 10101 1101 1101 1100 101110 101101 111111 11111 10110110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 481 |
| Words | 95 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 13 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem as my students were reading "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas and my father was dying. After 10 years of reading Thomas' poem, I was surprised to find myself in the lines
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