Analysis of Can't Sleep Tonight
I'm not tired but I lie down and wonder
what's left on this earth that's not down under?
when all thoughts are sin and memory is correction
when all hope is gone, life loses dirrection.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11101111010 1111111110 1111101001010 111111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 182 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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