Analysis of To where a snowflake dies
A war in heaven reluctantly concedes
Unto the lullaby's singing softly amid the night
Covering us in its heavenly blows
As feathers falling so intense and gracefully light
Escaping God's white watery coves
And somewhere up above...
I believe there are angels grooming
Thus, for the twilight showing, shedding as they rush
The world as such, always in a hurry
But, for an instance and out of nowhere
An avalanche of marvel captivates the hush
And in my distant mind I most certainly can relate
As to the stars and grains of ancient sands
My tongue to toast these miracles of wonder
Reaching further to acquiesce
In greetings, to miniature designs
Crafted out of God's very hands
While, celestial bodies move
In constant shadows
With the human mind
Thus, begins the ends of dusk
To where a snowflake dies
Look around...
Who is it that seems to care?
Or thinks to ponder the manual labor here
With hammers, chisels, nuts and bolts
Never a witness to a mistake
Or a discover to the simplest of error
Yet, I listen… to the silence…
Extracting all its pleasure
Before, another million frigid seedlings ashen
Meet with daunting fate
And in the still of the tranquil
Neither snowflake cries out or offers up complaint
For a day
Or merely several nights more
A complex purpose
Or to thus,a simple existence?
Then, I pause...
Unto supposition as I meditate
Guesses drift into the unknown
Of the never ending knowing
Embracing their provident life
And I watch as they cuddle close
Waiting, within a bleach of ice
To a scene of newer flakes of snowing
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010010001 100110100101 1001011001 1101010101001 010111001 01101 101111010 11011010111 011110010 111100111 1101101001 00110111100101 1101011101 11111100110 1010101 010110001 10111101 1010101 0101 10101 1010111 11011 101 1111111 111100100101 11010101 100101001 100101010110 11101010 0101110 0101010101010 11101 00011010 10111110101 101 1101011 01010 11110010 111 100101110 10101001 10101010 01011001 01111101 10010111 1011101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,498 |
Words | 271 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 6, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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