Analysis of The Observatory
The somnolent gateway to the moving night,
lay lost and tapered,
forgotten and casted off―
as dreams are no longer encouraged
The opaque interior
encases the gazing, nimble movers
Symbols of progress and understanding,
now only a pointed hourglass
Ceiling endlessly stretched,
encompassing dancing lights thick and thin
Forced to wait dismally
through lonesome twilight
The observatory, weakened by worry
beneath synthetic black winds,
and waiting to search the heavens once more
forever…
| Scheme | AXXX BXXX XXCA CXXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0100110101 11010 010011 111110010 0010100 10101010 10110010 11001010 101001 0100101101 111100 1101 0010010110 0101011 0101101011 010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 477 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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