Analysis of Good Night
Dogs barking east, south, and north,
A cacophony of basses, baritones, and tenors,
But one whippoorwill slicing incessantly through the night.
I dream of full moons illuminating darkness,
Yet darkness still perpetually pervades,
Though pushed piquantly by moonbeam illuminati.
No human master calls for quiet
Yet the small almost imperceptible whisper of God
Comforts all to a bedded good night and peaceful slumber.
I alone roam every two hours among the shadow transmogrifications
Shrouded in the nighttime pacification
That is its Linus soliloquy.
Three A.M. leads to four
And the perceptible perfectness of the unification of night
Leads to the breaking dawn, wind arousals, and temperature transformations.
A new day dawns.
by Douglas Noel
Scheme | XAB XXB XXX AXX XBX X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101101 0010011010010 111100100101 11111010010 11010100001 111111 110101110 101101001011 10110101101010 101110011001011 100010010 111100100 11111 000100110001011 110101110100010 0111 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 757 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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