Analysis of Sinking!
The Night:
light, heat, and smoke
cloud black and ominous;
hopeful arms forging gentle curves...
Sinking!
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Cinquain |
| Metre | 01 1101 110100 10110101 10 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 105 |
| Words | 19 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Written on October 12, 2022
Submitted by robertrad2021 on October 12, 2022
Modified on March 07, 2023
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