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.
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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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