Analysis of Painted Sky
Painted Sky
By Robert McKay
© 2010 by Robert McKay
I saw colors like that, once,
When I painted them by numbers,
But not that clear,
Not over the whole spread of the sky.
As I came out the door
There was a light on the land,
Reflected down from the clouds,
Coming to them from a sun
Rising low over Tijeras Canyon.
That horizontal light,
Shining red through the atmosphere,
Turned salmon and rose
On the bottom of the clouds—
Clouds that formed a ceiling to the horizon,
Fluffy and soft and glowing in that marvelous light.
I painted that picture years and years ago,
Following the numbers—
A ship under sail beneath a sunset or a sunrise sky.
But there is no glory in paint and canvas
To match the natural glow
Of that newborn sun shining on the bottoms of the clouds.
23DEC10, 0839
220 Western Skies, ABQ
Scheme | ABB XCDA XXEFFGDXEFG HCAXHE XA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 11001 11001 1110111 11101110 1111 110011101 111101 1101101 0101101 1011101 10110110 10101 1011010 11001 1010101 11101010010 1001010011001 11011010101 100010 0110101011011 11111001010 1101001 11101101010101 1 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 786 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 11, 6, 2 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on February 11, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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