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
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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Sam Hain

A lawyer in New York City, an armature writing enthusiast. more…

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