Analysis of Touch The Sky
Touch the Sky
By Chris Commodore ©2007
reaching to touch the sky,
you think the sky is right there;
but when you get right there,
the sky is out much farther.
way out there,
another heaven, more sky
with blue and white clouds.
this new sky now,
the sky of those you
tried to touch when you
were down there – a second sky.
and if you reach the second sky,
there’s nothing there;
except perhaps,
just a third sky,
exactly like sky two,
and sky one.
yet once in the sky,
you look below
and see another sky.
now up is sky,
and down is sky,
and I’m just in the middle.
Scheme | AX ABBXBAXXCCAABXACXAXAAAX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (24%) |
Metre | 101 1110 101101 1101111 111111 0111110 111 0101011 11011 1111 01111 11111 0110101 01110101 1101 0101 1011 010111 011 11001 1101 010101 1111 0111 0110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 606 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 23 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 214 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
About this poem
The puzzle of the end of the sky ... Does the sky we see end somewhere; I often wonder what lies beyond the.
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