Analysis of Enter the summer

Kelley Davies 1983 (Dallas)



Eternal sunlight arises

Amidst stifling darkness

May the moon shine brightly

On her experiences

May she find the light at the end of her tunnel

My path is narrowing

I have extreme worry

I wonder if I can summon the courage to go down this skinny trail

I want to fall asleep next to you


Scheme X X A X X X A X X
Poetic Form
Metre 0101010 011010 101110 1001000 111011011010 111100 110110 110111100101111101 111101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 319
Words 71
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 26
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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