Analysis of Winter's Night
How many sunrises will I see,
how many poems will I write
How many Spring’s to then deceive
—until Autumn surrenders to Winter’s night
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)
| Scheme | XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1101111 11010111 11011101 01100101101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 177 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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