Analysis of That Beckoning Star
The Siren of fate
lures you onto the rocks
Her beauty enticing
while masking what’s not
A shipwreck of horrors
that’s not what it seems
Luring you onward
away from your dreams
A phantom discovery
a fool’s masquerade
Its promising temptress
an ill mannered charade
And once you discover
your mortality is near
You flail and you panic
while sinking in fear
The distance you’ve traveled
at a liars demand
Weighs heavy as you manage
one last spoken command
Shouting out to your comrades
to stay where they are
Searching only within
—for that beckoning star
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
| Scheme | XX XX XA XA XB XB XC XC XD XD XE XE X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 01011 111001 010010 11001 010110 11111 10110 01111 0100100 0101 110010 111001 011010 1010011 110110 11001 010110 101001 1101110 111001 101111 11111 101001 111001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 603 |
| Words | 100 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 13 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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