Analysis of The Next Moonless Night
Its chain cut again…
the demon is loose
Deep into the night,
she hunts darker truths
The hallway’s back stairs,
her favorite retreat
Pending daylight’s return,
when her bite becomes weak
Then she staggers back wounded
to shadows that call
Old blood trails lead silent
down that dark lonely hall
Where a door is rechained,
and its lock fastened tight
Until a hacksaw appears
—with the next moonless night
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
Scheme | XX AX XX XX XB XB AA XA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 01011 10101 11101 0111 010001 10101 101011 1110110 1111 111110 111101 10111 011101 010101 10111 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 458 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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