Analysis of 1:07 am



A cat is meowing in the alley
bellowing at it's hunger.
Cars race by on I-95
carrying tired employees home.
The sky is only getting darker.
Skyscrapers illuminate a dimension of darkness
like a lighthouse beacon.
Two drunks cursing at each other outside of a bar
their words as misunderstood as the bum
occupying the front of some convenience store.
It seems that every cycle that began this morning
Has ended right now, at 1:07 AM.
Rats scurry across the street
picking at the humans misfit food.


Scheme ABCDBEFGHIJKLM
Poetic Form
Metre 01110010 1001110 11111 100100101 011101010 1001000010110 10110 1110111011101 111001101 10001110101 11110010101110 1101111 1100101 10101011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 484
Words 88
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 400
Words per stanza (avg) 87
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Submitted on January 13, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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