Analysis of To A Refinery In The Desert At Night
Sparkle, silent city!
Arrayed in radiance,
Appear across black leagues
As clear as desert stars
Across black light years, shine
In arid dark as do
Those incandescent few
Oases: cities all,
Like thee and me, adrift
For all eternity.
And fuel our human craft,
A slender brilliance, singing,
Rising straight and clear
Against that greater night
To reach those greater cities,
Still to journey on,
Its silvery silhouette
As luminous as any
Desert star at dawn.
Scheme | A XXXXBBXXA XXXXXXXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010 010100 010111 111101 011111 010111 10101 010101 110101 110100 01010101 0101010 10101 011101 1111010 11101 110001 1100110 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 438 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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