Analysis of The Pianist



Tears descend from a leeward sun,
Spilling over polarity’s chaste-less edge,
Into pastures of fallen stars.
Daylight’s golden tendrils,
Caress twilight’s lusterless figure,
Unveiling her shroud of uncertainty,
                        upon an anvil of ivory.
Rapidly she fades to a flatter sea,
       simmering upon the shores of delivery.
As the hills ascend to conceal sun’s scepter,
Sea’s flat descent is reversed by a new chapter,
In the life of a star,
                                                           now risen.
once fallen.
Casting a singular glow upon the granular imprint,
Her light transcends celestial impossibility,
Illuminating the shadow bridge of antipathy,
Where gratitude unfolds its radiant tapestry.


Scheme ABCCDEEEEDDFAAGEEE
Poetic Form
Metre 10110101 10101111 01101101 1101 011110 0100110100 011101100 1001110101 100010110100 1010110111 110110110110 001101 110 110 100100101010001 010101000100 010001110100 110011100100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 738
Words 115
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 517
Words per stanza (avg) 98

About this poem

Wrote this poem in college for a creative writing class- received an F on it. Took me 7 years to find an ending I liked for it. I focused on weaving two separate metaphors together, while using spacing to highlight them.

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Written on April 03, 2024

Submitted by maxxt.89001 on April 03, 2024

Modified by maxxt.89001 on April 03, 2024

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Maxx Tannenbaum

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