Analysis of In The Night
Is your pen fully loaded,
is the piston pulled back
Are the words of high-caliber,
is your target intact
Does intention self load,
does conviction re-sight
Will the ink run like blood
—when you fire in the night
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)
| Scheme | AX XX XB AB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111010 101011 10111100 111001 101011 101011 101111 1110001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 252 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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