Analysis of Celestial Dance
Brightly,
Lightly,
Nightly
Tightly,
Stars shine brightly, lightly in the sky,
Moon moves nightly, tightly passing by.
| Scheme | AAAABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain Sestet Tyburn |
| Metre | 10 10 10 10 111010001 111010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 117 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
About this poem
I don't know if my interpretation of the instruction is correct, but this poem should be a six-line poem consisting of 2,2,2,2,9,9 syllables A Tyburn poem is a six-line poem consisting of 2,2,2,2,9,9 syllables. The first four lines rhyme and are all descriptive words, while the last two lines rhyme and incorporate the first, second, third, and fourth lines as the fifth to eighth syllables.
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