Analysis of Awake
A shift in silence barely felt
But small electric change
Dimness brightens as hazy glow
Finds cracks in darkened quiet space
Warm silent blankets of hazy light
Draw advancing over sleeping place
First furry tails a lazy wag
Then tiny heads are softly raised
Lost dreams cling to final fight
By sounds of daybreak chased away
Where once all shared in breath of night
Now all suffuse with break of day
| Scheme | XXXA BAXX BCBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 01010101 110101 1101101 11010101 110101101 101010101 11010101 11011101 1111101 1111101 11110111 11011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 415 |
| Words | 78 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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