Analysis of Wonder



It is late at night
As I look into a crystalline sky
And ponder upon my smallness

I realise the stars are
The music of the universe
I am but one note on the staff

And I am alone


Scheme XXX XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 111010101 01001110 11011 0101010 11111101 01101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 189
Words 45
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 46
Words per stanza (avg) 13

About this poem

Came to me staring at the stars through my holly tree one evening

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Written on 2021

Submitted by meganl.48371 on November 06, 2022

Modified on March 16, 2023

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Megan Lindberg

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