Analysis of One Starry Night



Thought of you awakes me in a middle of night...
clad on my robe I think of you from a distance
the stars above the sky began to catch my sight;
wind whispers your presence, a sudden bounce-
though vision seems dim; stars remain so bright.

Every starry night my mind turns towards you-
as if I see no murky clouds divide us apart...
from a silhoutte of my vivid imagination of you;
no longer worry a day will come for us to start
to live the kind of life I worked hard for you.

Hope same feeling will bring every starry night
and I wish nothing but comfort my longing soul-
for the fairies of mercy, pray with great delight;
this starry night shall come if I'd wish to recall
to rekindle a light of hope I've seen that night.


Scheme AXAXA BCBCB AXAXA
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11111001011 111111111010 010101011111 1101100101 1101110111 100101111011 1111110101101 1011110001011 1101001111111 11011111111 111011100101 011101101101 101011011101 11011111111 101001111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 711
Words 141
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 188
Words per stanza (avg) 47
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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