Analysis of The breaking of the day
Early morning frost
lay in the remnants of the night,
like fallen teardrops lost,
upon the edges of the light.
The moon still lingers in the sky
with stars that fade away,
the horizon glows, though mystify,
at the dawning of the day.
The wind in silence paint the sea,
when drawn the mist away,
like curtains of eternity
before the break of day.
Then as the sun begins to rise,
the eastern sky caught blaze,
like the opening of a dragons eyes
with golden, amber rays.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EDED FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10101 10010101 11011 01010101 01110001 111101 00101110 1010101 01010101 110101 11010100 010111 11010111 010111 1010010101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 452 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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