Analysis of Night Noise
4:30 A.M., now suddenly awake
A noise, a bang somewhere, a suspicious break
As if a witch or ghost
Is here to entertain, to raise me a toast
Half drowsed, the other half alert
Did knocking sparrow enter as a bird?
Alas, it is but an unlocked window gone awry
And not a dangerous
Martian spy!
Now so awake, I can't go to sleep
Already counted eight hundred sheep
| Scheme | AABBXXCXCD D |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110001 0101100101 110111 1110111101 11010101 1101010101 0111110110101 010100 101 110111111 010101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 365 |
| Words | 77 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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