Analysis of Mourning in the Morning



Let your planet of fire
sink in sleep.

Nightingales whisper
a lullaby of slumber.

Flowers rest their silky heads
on a pillow of shadows.

Let your light lie light
in wait —

Cloak yourself in moonlight,
hide in the gleam on the tips of waves,
the glint of sandy shores.

Find the soft in the dark,
but when come day,
pierce the night
with your swords of light
and vanquish its weeping shadows
in mourning.


Scheme AX AA XB CX CXX XXCCBX
Poetic Form
Metre 1110110 101 110 010110 1011101 101011 11111 01 10101 100110111 011101 101001 1111 101 11111 0101101 010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 411
Words 89
Sentences 5
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 6
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 53
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Written on March 26, 2024

Submitted by miriamm.58856 on March 27, 2024

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Miriam Manglani

Miriam Manglani lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and three children. She graduated with a degree in English from Brandeis University and works full-time as a Technical Training Manager. Her poems have been published in various magazines and journals including Sparks of Calliope, Red Eft Review, One Art, Glacial Hills Review, and Paterson Literary Review. Her poem, “They’ve Come,” was a finalist for the Beals Prize for Poetry. Her poetry chapbook, Ordinary Wonders, was published by Prolific Press. more…

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