Analysis of SEEKING HEAVEN
In this land that’s never dark,
my poor telescope searches
the moon swimming in a haze,
unsteady, stumbling as if drunk.
The fireflies appear as stars
amid the cattails and milkweed,
here now… gone now… there now,
High… low… on… off… no hurry.
On this patch of suburban lawn,
I turn three-sixty, a wanderer
intoxicated by drink and nature,
Peering into the eternal night.
Galileo, you magnificent soul,
your primitive tool was enough
to plumb creation, map the planets,
give lie to myths and legends.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111101 111010 0110001 010100111 0100111 010101 111111 1111110 11110101 111100100 010011010 100100101 010101001 11001101 110101010 1111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 535 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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IN the back yard, trying to focus on Venus with a cheap telescope, you might find more than you seek.
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