Analysis of Crystals



Crystals come for now's your time,
Angel's tears have synced into rhyme.
It's dark within this world of gray,
Soon now crystals will fill this empty day.

It falls within a special day,
A day of promise to leave without dismay.
To walk now with or beside joy and life inside this heart,
A fault of mine alone for tears will spill the cart.

Come now crystals fall without your fear,
To catch on children's tongues and hear them cheer.
For when I walk beside these streets,
I remember the times of flush and joy upon my cheeks.

Within that hand as I would walk,
A bundle of roses would hold this heart to tell it's words but not talk.
Now I wait with the sounds of falling snow to ease my wait,
Under a light I wait unknown that I was bait.

When such the door opened with sadness not joy,
With such an angered voice and now a broken boy.
With such flush of reds upon those cheeks.
Sadness grows in only a matter of weeks.

I left that day my heart behind,
And the roses on her doorsteps once so defined.
Crystals not on the sky but on my cheeks,
It was hot and warm and could fill the weeks.

I chose to never remember what once had been,
For I would leave this life with a fateful sin.
To close those eyes that final time,
Would soon end an overflowed heart that would burst into rhyme.

So crystals come for now's your time,
Angels tears have synced into rhyme.
It's dark within this world of gray,
Crystals fill this empty day.


Scheme aaBb bbcc ddxe ffgg hhee iiee jjaa aaBb
Poetic Form Quatrain  (88%)
Metre 1011111 1111011 11011111 1110111101 11010101 01110110101 11111011010111 011101111101 111010111 1111010111 11110111 10100111010111 01111111 01011011111111111 11110111011111 100111011111 11011011011 111101010101 111110111 10101001011 11111101 00101011101 1011011111 1110101101 111100101111 11111110101 11111101 1111011111011 11011111 10111011 11011111 1011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,393
Words 275
Sentences 17
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 139
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted on February 05, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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