Analysis of Walking on Light.



She spread her love thinly,
her kisses lasted days,
forgotten and lonely.
Her mother's lasted a year,
they were rare and full of care.
Her father's a lifetime,
held tighter than air.


Scheme ABACDED
Poetic Form
Metre 110110 010101 010010 0101001 1010111 01001 11011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 176
Words 32
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 142
Words per stanza (avg) 32

About this poem

Lighting up. Living without kisses.

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Written on September 15, 2021

Submitted by heathert.34240 on September 15, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Heather Lydia Thornhill

 · 1981 · Manchester

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