Analysis of The Night Sky



The Night Sky

A shadow dotted with a million lights,
so dark it still gives me the frights.
The pale disc of the moon suspended by invisible threads,
sends down my spine shivers of dread.

And the stars, oh dazzling hot beauties,
just stay they in one place without duties,
shining and casting their blinding light,
which is whiter than white.

The eeriness of this is that someone far,
would see the same thing - same moon same star,
and see the same abyss of the sky,
finding in it something to smile and cry,
for here it is said the dead went,
looking at us while every moment we spend.

And it is said that there is,
in the same abyss,
a million planets and many galaxies,
and Heaven from which blows tunes of music like breeze.

Find the right place to watch and you will see,
shooting stars flying with glee.
and perhaps you'll hear the same divine voice,
that every meditating Brahmin has heard,
words that are wise.

Should you believe in every heard word,
the world will turn into something different,
a place where the illusions are so bright you've got to squint.

Or you can see something smiling at you,
removing all your blue.
It seems stimulating,
something worth staring,
for it removes weary feelings.

Mysteriously eerie is the night sky,
it glows, it darkens and shies.
However changing it appears to be,
arising feelings eerie or happy,
It is, it remains as it is,
an overhead black abyss.

A Poem By Jiya Doshi, Age 12 Years


Scheme A BBXX CCDD EEAAXX FGCC HHXIJ IXX KKLLX AJHHFG X
Poetic Form
Metre 011 011010101 11111101 011101010101001 11111011 0011100110 1110110110 100101101 111011 01111111 110111111 010101101 1001101101 11111011 101111001011 0111111 00101 01010010100 010111111011 1011110111 1011011 0011101011 11001001011 1111 1101010011 01110110100 01100101111111 1111101011 010111 11100 10110 11011010 1000101011 111101 101010111 0101010110 11101111 1101101 010111011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,446
Words 308
Sentences 13
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 6, 4, 5, 3, 5, 6, 1
Lines Amount 39
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Written on January 16, 2021

Submitted by hermionejeangranger4ever on April 07, 2022

Modified on April 07, 2023

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