Analysis of Fear Stalks The Night
Making sense of it all…
our grandest myth
Wisdom born of age,
bleeding youth’s betrayal
Questions dry unvarnished,
cold naked in the night
Darker darks reface the cliff,
all edges sharper cut
Two images, clearer than before,
preying in deadly contrast
Wonder imprisoning the day
—fear stalking the night
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
| Scheme | XX XX XA XX XX XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101111 10101 10111 101010 101010 110001 101101 110101 110010101 1001010 10010001 11001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 335 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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