Analysis of The Star was falling in complete solitude...
* This is the English version of my Russian one, 'Звезда в одиночестве падала...' which I've posted here earlier.*
The Star was falling in complete solitude
into the lake - the foaming womb...
She couldn't hold on anymore: in repentance
scorching her yet pink fuzz. Doomed.
Kissing the Sky daughterly, departed
with no good-byes, no final word: not one sentence.
The Angels-Scatterbrains strained
in the tippet of a roped fog, in shored.
The Guardians - enabled to watch, catch and hear
the groaning of the delicate Star. Ignored.
The fall's been written off as fatal, inevitable;
the soul resigned upon a drop of its last silent tear.
Morning twilight abruptly squashed
the darkness, in coma deceitfully laying.
Its blood filled eyes stared in grave disbelieve
at the body of a burnt Star- chewed up, obeying,
by death, snapped off at the root of existence.
The lake turned salt-watered overflowing with grief.
The Star was falling in complete solitude
into the lake - the foaming womb...
The Sky's heart collapsed, smothered
in pain - sharp like lightning strike. Will mourn
the Star for eternity, in agony, in despair,
forever leaden, damned to cradle regret, the mother -
The Sky...
Scheme | a BCdxxd xexexf xgxgdx BCxxfax |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101110111101100 0111000110 01010101 11011010010 1001111 10011010 111111011110 01011 0010101101 010001011101 01010100101 01110111001000 01010101111101 1010101 010010110 1111101001 1010101111010 11111011010 01111010011 0111000110 01010101 0110110 011110111 01101000100001 01010111001010 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,185 |
Words | 200 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 6, 7 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 181 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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