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…
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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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