Analysis of Bliss
Heaven might be a banquet.
I’d be happy if it was an eternal summer’s afternoon,
Blue sky, green trees, three cats resting on the green grass…
Only slightly lesser would be a moonlit evening,
The day at its close, staring out my bedroom window,
Pondering life’s mysteries.
Or, possibly, that thunderstorm I watched one night from my dorm,
Rolling across the wide-open fields of the Missouri countryside
In August of 2005, when I was a youthful and wide-eyed twenty-three,
All over again.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010 111011110101001 111111101011 101010110110 011111011110 1001100 11001101111111 1001011011001010 0101111010011101 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 486 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 385 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 82 |
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