Analysis of mourning of the night

Regina Elliott 1957 (Queens, NY)



nightingales attend
somber stars
soul departs eve flight


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 101 101 10111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 56
Words 8
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 49
Words per stanza (avg) 8

About this poem

This is a funeral lune poem.

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Written on March 09, 2023

Submitted by on March 09, 2023

Modified on March 13, 2023

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Regina Elliott

Regina Elliott is sixty-five and resides in North Carolina. She was a 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee. more…

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