Analysis of An Affair Between the Earth and Sky



Sky eye, so high, flutters like birds between
shadows flicking over earthen crevasses,
open to such advances. This hunger, apparent.

The landscape, licked by clouds, slides slowly
along under the sky's forceful hand. Lightly
brushing along this ground, the air fills

with the sweet smell of fruit-just-picked,
blackberries bursting, ah, on the tongue,
neatly between the clouds, its teeth bared

and ready to devour anything.


Scheme XAX BBA XXX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1111101101 11010101 1011010110010 01111110 01100110110 100111011 10111111 10101101 100101111 010101010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 415
Words 65
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 85
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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