Analysis of The Pale Brightness
The Pale Brightness
Morning frost
Sleeping lost
Crunching grass
Magpies pass
In the pale brightness
Singing breeze
Breathing trees
Healing meadow
Soothing shadow
In the pale brightness
Gathering cloud
Hanging proud
Textured view
Hints of blue
In the pale brightness
Dampening rain
Forest lane
Leading light
Approaching night
In the pale brightness
If not some smile
To consider for a while
A brace of thought
Where creativity is caught
Release its energetic power
Like another unkempt shower
When feeling torn between the thoughts
Not wanting to be out of sorts
A furtive grin
Where exactly to begin
Start again and let it go
Swinging slowly to and fro
Falling sky
Straining eye
Seeking moon
Darkening soon
In the pale brightness
Calming dark
Quietly stark
Burning stars
No sound of cars
In the pale brightness
Dormant shout
Lights go out
Asleep in seconds
Dreaming beckons
In the pale brightness
Copyright: Steven Maugham 2023
| Scheme | a bbccA ddeeA ffggA hhiiA jjxxkk xxllee mmnnA ooppA qqxxA x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0110 101 101 101 11 00110 101 101 101 101 00110 1001 101 101 111 00110 1001 101 101 0101 00110 1111 1010101 0111 1010011 01101010 10100110 11010101 11011111 0101 1010101 1010111 1010101 101 101 101 1001 00110 101 1001 101 1111 00110 101 111 01010 1010 00110 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 937 |
| Words | 162 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 11 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 5, 5, 5, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 49 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
I have always had a penchant for coupling of words together that I think sound interesting and inviting, and this case as an oxymoron, it created an atmospheric quality that gave my the impetus to write this poem.
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