Analysis of Eternal Nights

Cas Wilson 1999 (United States)



Time always seemed
so fleeting to me,
wings of melted waxen feathers
plummeting towards the sea.

But you say time has ceased,
you hold the golden hourglass,
and I think to myself, at the very least
I stopped with you.

You told me that we were
beings of light and energy
that traveled across the cosmos,
leaving something
just a bit stronger than memory.

We are illuminous pillars of matter
that reflect each others light
and glow all the brighter
in each other's eternal nights.


Scheme XAXA BXBX CAXXA CXCX
Poetic Form
Metre 111 11011 1110110 1000101 111111 1101010 0111110101 1111 111110 10110100 11001010 1010 101101100 11110110 1011101 011010 01100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 485
Words 99
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5, 4
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 96
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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Written on January 05, 2024

Submitted by LadyPhantasmagoria on January 06, 2024

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Cas Wilson

Cas Wilson is a twenty-something history and book nerd living in Pennsylvania with their partner. They have been devouring books their entire life with no plans to stop anytime soon. more…

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