Analysis of Summer's night

Timothy Richard 1968 (Ky)



Flickering pinpricks 
In the distance 
"Hang"
In the night air 
fireflies 
on a hot
summer's night 
Full moon 
gently-n-slowly begins 
It's evening arch 
above the rivers 
emerald Green waters 
below 
reddish-n-orange 
purplish hue 
Sun 
slowly-n-gently 
drowneding 
in the river's 
emerald green waters 
gray mist 
floating odd bits
silvery glitter 
mystical-n-mysterious
shadows-n-shapes 
spreading
across the sky 
ghostly boney fingers 
trying to save 
the drowning 
mystical 
fiery 
orangish red
Ball 

                                


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (54%)
Metre 1001 0010 1 0011 10 101 101 11 1011001 1101 01010 10110 01 10110 101 1 10110 1 0010 10110 11 1011 10010 10010100 111 10 0101 101010 1011 010 100 100 11 1 1
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 679
Words 84
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 34, 1
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 198
Words per stanza (avg) 40

About this poem

Poem is about my childhood growing up on the Green river in western Kentucky

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Written on January 25, 2023

Submitted by michaallen68 on January 27, 2023

Modified on March 14, 2023

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