Analysis of Summer Breath



Look to the sky for me, my love,
Without the tears of the fading blossom,
For I will go as far as you will take me.
Let the day begin with sunlight on green stillness
and the hot breath of summer
Cascading into gentle sounds of comfort.

I'll wait for you in that breeze.
Between folly and fame I will choose the ease
of the daydream,
And in it I will build a place for you.
Do you sleep and wait for me to come?

Or can you let the day end,
as it began,
Without madness.


Scheme XAXBXX CCXXA XXB
Poetic Form
Metre 11011111 0101101010 11111111111 10101111110 0011110 01001101110 1111011 01100111101 101 0011110111 111011111 1111011 1101 0110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 471
Words 109
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 5, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 120
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Written on April 14, 2023

Submitted by JaceSon on April 14, 2023

Modified on April 19, 2023

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JaceSon P. Barrus

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