Analysis of A Dark Cloud
The Shadow hovers…
as I wake
from my sleep
Respreading its
shroud
from a future once bleak
Its darkness portends
what fear
seeks to end
All memory entombed,
as wishes
pretend
(Ashwood Manor: October, 2020)
| Scheme | XXX XXX XXA XXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0110 111 111 11 1 101011 11001 11 111 110001 110 01 110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 195 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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