Analysis of The sun and the moon

Vicki Kriel 2002 (Cape Town)



The sun and the moon,
different but the same, two sides of a frame.

The sun and the moon,
me and you, nearly too good to be true.

The sun - your source of light,
the moon - my natural satellite.

The sun -  who brightens up your days,
the moon - who saves me from my haze.

Your sun, who makes your flowers bloom,
and disposes of your impending doom.

My moon, who makes my stars collide,
and all my problems subside.

The sun and the moon,
hopefully we meet sometime soon,
but the time for us to orbit around each other,  is in the hands of the universe, our mother.


Scheme Ax Ax bb cc dd ee Aax
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 01001 10010111101 01001 1011011111 011111 01110010 01110111 01111111 11111101 0010110101 11111101 0111001 01001 1001111 1011111001110100110101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 569
Words 132
Sentences 7
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 61
Words per stanza (avg) 16

About this poem

This poem about longing for your soulmate but understanding that everything happens in the universe’s timing.

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Written on July 03, 2023

Submitted by vickikriel on July 03, 2023

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