Analysis of Street Lamp
A lone lamp standing on its shadow in the dark night
A tumultuous day has fallen asleep like a baby
Whom are you trying to shine on
Only the orange colored wind talks to you
Cold dews and blinking stars
Staring at each other chatting
Old trees poised like samurais lined up on the street
Expecting your review
A squirrel with its tail curled up like the fruit of a tree
Bathed in your maternal gaze
The wind can't pick it despite several attempts
yet was left with dendritic scars
This quiet world feels like before the birth of all mankind
Are you planning a different tomorrow?
Street lights in the dark night
Alone sowing seeds of light
Spread like water to the deepest distance of darkness
When the arrival of dawn brightens every inch of the limitless land
Hundreds of millions of eyes embrace the morning’s greetings
Who will remember you last night
You with the filament burning in your heart
You who has lighted up alone in the dark
Scheme | A B X C D X X C B X X D X X A A X X X A X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101110011 01001110011010 11110111 10010101111 110101 10111010 11111011101 01011 01011111101101 1010101 01111011001 11110101 11011101011111 1110010001 110011 0110111 1110101010110 1001011101001101001 10110110101010 11010111 11010010011 11110101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 928 |
Words | 171 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 22 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Written on September 26, 2021
Submitted by Samhain on September 29, 2021
Modified on April 28, 2023
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