Analysis of Light
A mother's daughter
standing in front of You
asks her father which star is mother
up high he looked and wondered too.
He remembered his own emptiness
when mother left at five
and watched him from a star he never found with success
forced to live a meaningless life.
At the bed of death he asked You silently a way
with inner screaming voice of desperation,
taking her place for he is not worth to stay;
if it was ment one of them to race this kid as a rectification.
Are You here ?
Dear Sylvia,
your mother is there,
a relieving lie he put in his mouth,
this shining star next to the other one which is my mother's
Scheme | ABAB XXXX CDCD X XXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010 100111 101011110 11110101 101011100 110111 0111011101101 11101001 1011111110001 1101011010 10011111111 11111111111100010 111 1100 11011 0010111011 110111010111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on January 22, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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