Analysis of Sugar Into Snow
I spin it out,
this tapestry of thought,
and swear it's sugar into snow -
Abstracted bits of memory like starlight caught
in the flame of magnification.
No more, this sediment of
smuggled bliss,
But rather time slowed
down to the sound of dusky
shadows of the stolen day.
I'll look to you then,
as you were - as you seemed,
painting my feelings
with this pen
and placing them on this canvas
with all the delicacy
of the poet
finding saints in the snowdrifts.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMKNOPG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 110011 01110011 1011100111 00110010 1111001 101 11011 110111 110101 11111 110111 10110 111 01011110 1101000 1010 101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 458 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 361 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
About this poem
The voice of the poet struggles here to capture his thoughts about something he lost and remembers better than it actually was.
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Written on April 20, 2023
Submitted by JaceSon on April 20, 2023
Modified on May 01, 2023
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