Analysis of A still night



A gentle town of yonder
The calm creeps in, faster
The still winds never seemed to falter
My mind can never station,
Station in place.

It’s not something I can master,
Not something I can do faster,
My mind only seems to wander;
A bird unbound.

In the tranquility of the dark
Lo! There is no bark!
Yet my eyes don’t falter,
Something I can’t alter.
And there I lay
Lay in shame
Oh, how I will suffer in the morning,
Oh, how for sleep I have a yearning…


Scheme AAAXX AAAX BBAAXXCC
Poetic Form
Metre 0101110 011010 011101110 1111010 1001 11101110 11011110 11101110 0101 000100101 11111 111110 101110 0111 101 1111100010 111111010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 462
Words 101
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 8
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 115
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Written on April 26, 2022

Submitted by omarsumon1030 on April 26, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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