Analysis of Years ago



the glass of my window was scattered
with tiny drops of water,
that caught the moonlight like little stars,
glittering in the dark.

It was very long ago,
when I was very young.
I was sitting by my window that night,
once more wondering
at the beauty of the stars,
which enchanted my childish mind, writing.

I write these words now as a memory,
visions I recall from the past.
It was winter, frosty,
with the wind I so loved.
The storm lilies had bloomed, 7 flowers,

and I remember the storm,
it was a wind storm, with some rain,
I was not afraid,
I loved wind and storms even more,
They formed a part of my heart,
Like giving outing to your emotions,
flying in the wind, like the long leaves of the weeping willows.

But I never made any wishes
to those stars,
for I was content with my world,
it was a paradise of childhood,
in the winter, in memories I still recall.


Scheme XXAX XXXBAB CXCXX XXXXXXX XAXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 011110110 1101110 11011101 100001 1110101 111101 1110111011 11100 1010101 1010110110 1111110100 1011101 111010 101111 01101110 0101001 11011111 11101 11101101 1101111 1101011010 10001101110101 111011010 111 11110111 1101011 00100100111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 841
Words 166
Sentences 7
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 6, 5, 7, 5
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 134
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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