Analysis of Like Starfall
Look me in my shining eyes;
I have no fear, nor weak regrets.
The remnants of them washed away
last night beneath the silken canopy of the trees
swishing
like a woman's bustling verdant dress
under the raw, cracked lips of the wind.
The wind whispered to me, then, eerily close
slightly warm
but edged with sharp pinpricks of ice
that hardened me
to everything
and in the purity of solitude
I found a unique, floating happiness
the kind that lifts your feet off the ground
cold
bony
mere human bundles of skin and blood
but somehow recognized
by the force that is space, and the force
that is hopeful, dawning love.
I saw a light that night
caressed by breezes and losing the fight
against the great, wet, pulsing earth
that was never fighting until my birth
when I thought
three years old, pudgy, untainted
that there was something I needed to do.
But there never was
and here I am, now
buffeted by salty sea winds that have always been my friends
in love with my own heady soul
living like starfall in the night.
Always flying onward
until someone turns off the light.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKELMNOKPQRSTTUUVWXYZ1 2 T3 T |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (23%) |
Metre | 1101101 11111101 01011101 1101010100101 1 1010100101 100111101 01101111001 101 1111111 1101 110 000100110 1100110100 011111101 1 10 110101101 1110 101111001 1110101 110111 0111001001 01011101 1110100111 111 11110010 1111011011 11101 01111 0111011111111 01111101 1011001 11010 0111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,036 |
Words | 196 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 35 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 855 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 196 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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