Analysis of Voiceless Careless Secrets

Benjamin Joyner 1983

Voiceless Careless Secrets
Dancing Seducing
Night after Night
So Deliciously Dark
For Desire Touches Night
And Light is Drowned

Scheme ABCDCE
Poetic Form
Metre 101010 10010 1101 101001 1010101 0111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 127
Words 19
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 109
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted by ben.joyner on April 18, 2023

Modified on April 18, 2023

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