Analysis of A Slice of Beauty



Now, close your eyes, listen to me,
and peer into my envelope with your imagination. . . .
See there! A star, shining bright!
It has moon-bedazzled rings of gold,
silver and white.
Do you see what I see?
It's a sea of shimmering light
with crested stars
and glistening, crusted hills of awe-inspiring height.
A soul drifts through without the slightest effort. . . .
He is floating,
mingling amongst the shapes--breathing his life into the air.
I know this place! We have all felt it before,
and now I hold it out for you
to touch, to smell, to adore.


Scheme ABCDCACECFGHIJI
Poetic Form
Metre 11111011 0101110110010 1101101 1111111 1001 111111 10111001 1101 0100101110101 01110101010 1110 100010110110101 11111111101 01111111 1111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 537
Words 96
Sentences 16
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 419
Words per stanza (avg) 102
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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