Analysis of Taken in the night
Taken like a theft in the night
Fear got you from the moment it took hold
It consumed your soul you were trapped with no escape from your own life it sure feel like I was taken in the night
| Scheme | ABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 10101001 1111010111 101111011101111111111110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 187 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 50 |
| Words per line (avg) | 13 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Taken like a theft in the night Fear got you from the moment it took hold It consumed your soul you were trapped with no escape from your own life it sure feel like I was taken in the night
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