Analysis of Sky
I lie awake and wonder
How the universe was made,
And how the planets rotate
On axes well-behaved.
I float in eons of space
With their myriad of suns,
That fuel a million lifetimes
Through which the comet runs.
I sail the dark and silence,
But enlightened now and then
By passing stars that burn bright
Until spent and ashen.
I pass the point of sky realms,
Farewelling galaxies known.
My soul will now sail onward
Where life and death I own.
Scheme | ABCDEFGFHIJKLMNM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 101011 010101 110101 1101011 1110011 1100101 110101 1101010 1010101 1101111 011010 1101111 11001 1111110 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 442 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 351 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 82 |
About this poem
Lying alone at night.
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