Analysis of Night Sky



Stars shooting
Straight lines
Oppositional
Undetermined direction

Multitudinal
Shooting short lines
L-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ng lines

Minute explosion in wonder
So vast
Almost unimaginable
God cleaning.

Star by star
Near and far


Scheme ABCX CBB XXCA DD
Poetic Form
Metre 110 11 1 010010 1 1011 1111111111 10010010 11 101000 110 111 101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 207
Words 29
Sentences 2
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 4, 2
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 46
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by dougnoel on July 14, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Douglas Noel

Douglas is a published poet who have been accorded several awards for his poetry. He is a former teacher of 40 years the last 13 of which focused on teaching middle school children to write especially using various poetic forms. more…

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