Analysis of Through the Sky (Trois par Huit)
Trois par Huit A style of poetry in which a poem consisting of 8 lines follows a syllable count of 3,6,9,12,12,9,6,3. The title must be last line of the poem and also incorporate the theme or subject of it as well. The lines follow a 3,2,3 pattern
Golden rays
The sunlight gently plays
Pouring warmth on languid summer days
Silver beams of moonlight,shimmering in the night
Changing colors of the day into gray and white
Moving quick they'll never catch your eye
Beams of light passing by
Through the sky
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011100010100101110010011010111110100100100110111110110010 101 01101 101110101 10111001 101010101101 101110111 111101 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 496 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on January 25, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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