Analysis of Closeness



When night suffocates the day
stars appear, drilling tiny holes in the darkness.
I look up and know that my little girl spots the same holes
even though she's thousands of miles away.

A smile runs over my face
like a falling star that cuts a frosty night.
Closeness is not measured in miles
but in heart beats.

My heart beats with yours, I am with you.
If you feel lonely look up to the stars and that tiny one,
in the upper left corner, the one that flashes,
that's the same one I am looking at - right now!


Scheme AXXA XXXX XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 101101010010 11101111011011 1011101101 0111011 10101110101 10111001 1011 111111111 111101110101101 001011001110 10111110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 497
Words 100
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 132
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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