Analysis of Stars of the body
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
He told his little girl that every little part of her was made of stars that shon so bright you couldn't even see them.
Then he pulled one from her cheek and said, but if you look closely with your minds eye you can look at them and even follow the stars back to daddy if you get lost, so there's no need to be afraid, not even of the dark, because even in the dark you are walking on stars.
The little girl closed her eyes and saw no stars and so she opened them again and all of a sudden she saw her bunny rabbit which had gotten lost not so long ago and she began to follow it, holding her fathers hand she cried I see snowball.
No baby her father said. Then he took some flowers and gave them to her. And she knew snowball was only a spirit because they were her mother's funeral flowers but she tried to feed Snowball a flower but he would not eat.
I don't understand daddy, she said. Where is Mummy.
Mummy is a star now, he said, and Snowball does not eat flowers anymore, they only eats love hearts. But he wants you to put the flowers near Mummy's body to show that she is remembered.
She said, one day even the flowers will be love hearts daddy, then Snowball can eat them while they're walking on the stars.
Scheme | ABCDEFB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101110010110111111111101011 111110101111110111111111010100111101111111111011101010110001111011 0101101011101110101011010110101011101111010101110110010111111 110010111111001110011111001001100101001011111101011111 110110111110 101011110111110011101111111110101101011111010 111110010111110111111110101 |
Characters | 1,220 |
Words | 247 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 7 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 136 |
Words per line (avg) | 35 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 949 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 242 |
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Written on July 04, 2022
Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on July 04, 2022
Modified by HeatherLydiaThornhill on July 04, 2022
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