Analysis of Of the moon and stars



You ask me to write
Of the moon and the stars

And all I can think of is
Those walks we took in the midnight bazaars

Of a town that came alive
Only when the skies were drenched in black

And among the spices
And the carpets, we found that silly Knick knack

An unremarkable object that cost us a long chat
And all the small change we had in our pockets

And remember where we bought
Those cheap silver coloured star shaped lockets

I wonder where mine lies
That locket, the bazaar, the night

I forget what we talked of...
In the shadows, when we hid from the moonlight.


Scheme AB XB XC XC XX XX XA XA
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 101001 0111111 111100101 1011101 101010101 001010 00101111011 10010010111011 010111101010 0010111 1110101110 110111 11000101 1011111 001111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 582
Words 129
Sentences 2
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 56
Words per stanza (avg) 14

About this poem

People usually presume poets write about the moon and and stars, and we often do, but there is always more to it than meets the eye. Everything is personal - a moment, a person and memories.

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Submitted by swapna.sanchita on April 10, 2023

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