Analysis of Circling the Moon
Jeffrey Lynn Naylor 1954 (Orlando)
circling the moon, chasing comet tails,
i spied a creature hiding behind beams
shining light years away across desert
expanses, dancing through solar winds
spiraling like a celestial jewel sweeping
through the heavens, waiting for
the moment
the time
the space
to open wide a dimensionless plain
and appear from disguise as a star
of love
of passion
of hope
to close tight the widening unknown
disappearing into my world as a thing
of beauty waiting to be loved as a glow
wishing to be discovered as the poem
that never again hides love behind
curtains of cosmological design.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOEPQRS |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (45%) Etheree (45%) |
Metre | 1000110101 1101010011 1011010110 010101101 100100101010 1010101 010 01 01 1101011 001101101 11 110 11 111010001 0100111101 11010111101 10110101010 110011101 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 557 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 473 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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