Analysis of Summer Love
When we were young and new as a learning day
I felt your love as a summer breeze
Caressing me sweetly.
Rising with the sun we sang
Our hearts entwined like living vines
Tracing our future forming.
Across the golden fields we ran
As our love began
Silver as the dawn.
Night-ward we climbed
And fell upon the laughing sea
That gathered us to its' seed,
To be born in the crystal rain.
On hallowed ground we slept
As time so softly crept
And passed us by.
And then, in the star struck sorrow
Of our summer's last embrace
I held your tears
Like diamonds in my hand.
Scheme | XXA XXX BBX XAXX CCX XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11010110101 111110101 010110 1010111 101011101 10101010 01010111 110101 10101 1111 01010101 1101111 11100101 110111 111101 0111 01001110 11010101 1111 110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 542 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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