Analysis of Silver Sliver

Matthew Flanders 1996 (Louisiana)



How is it that a night should be so loved? That is what I do not know:
how the yellow button should unbutton and disrobe,
how the bluish, whitish cold of that softer orb makes me sweat.
How should I understand when lovers stand, face to moonlit face,
wrapped up in each embrace of gilded stars, too far in holy space
to see a smile, a gleam, a glare of some taffied flare—strewn
like wisps of pines and oaken hair, all beneath your thousandth gift, the life
of no remorse, the orbit of a thousand dreams round its sacred, moonlit wife.


Scheme ABCDDEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 11110111111111111 101010101001 101010111101111 1110111011111 1101011101110101 1101010111111 1111011101110101 110101010101111011
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 537
Words 105
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 52
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 419
Words per stanza (avg) 101

About this poem

This poem is one I wrote thinking about my wife

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Written on March 12, 2024

Submitted by mattmflanders on March 12, 2024

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Matthew Flanders

I am a husband and father living in Baton Rouge, LA working on a doctorate in history. I write poetry in my spare time when either 1) I find inspiration or 2) I'm procrastinating grading papers. more…

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