Analysis of Sun-Woman



Let the sun show
over the hills, I love it so
Life is the sun,
the sun is life
let life rise, brightly, slowly, funly
let life never set.

But it does.

light turns to night, the
darkness comes
my eyes close slowly
sun, please don’t go.
        please don’t go.

but wait-in the light of the setting sun
I see some hope
a slender shape
walks over the hills in the distance
the sun halls to a stop, seems
to look at the figure
seems to stare, decide if it’s worthy
then the sun starts flying,
back up into the sky.
the figure keeps walking, closer,
closer.
the sun keeps moving, as fast as light itself,
into the middle of the sky above me.

the shape is hope, hope itself
she is light, and for me, the only
way to avoid darkness.

She is not far now, I see her face.
she says, “Are you all right? ”
“Don’t worry, ” I tell her, “the sun is not
my enemy anymore. He is my ally.”
She smiles at my healing face, and then I say,
“You were my hope, you are my hope. You
are my only hope of avoiding the darkness.”
“And you are the same to me, my love, ”
She says.

I jump up and I take her hands,
and I sing, “My love, my hope,
when you go the darkness comes,
but as long as you come back
light will shed on my weary face.
I owe my life to you, Sun-Woman.
I owe my life to you, my love.
I owe my life to you.
I owe my life to you.”


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Poetic Form
Metre 1011 10011111 1101 0111 11110101 11101 111 11110 101 11110 1111 111 1100110101 1111 0101 110010010 0111011 111010 11111110 101110 110101 01011010 10 01110111101 01010101011 0111101 111011010 110110 111111101 111111 1101100111 11000111110 11111010111 101111111 111011010010 011011111 11 11101101 0111111 1110101 1111111 11111101 111111110 11111111 111111 111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,322
Words 281
Sentences 21
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 6, 1, 5, 13, 3, 9, 9
Lines Amount 46
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 138
Words per stanza (avg) 39
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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