Analysis of Lights Out
Lights Out
Blackout of the night
When all the stars went out
The moon disappears
With the ending of its years
Trees now turn into winter ash
While the mountains crumble into dust
With the impending of the end
For each and every one of us
The earth no longer turns
Under the sun's flaming ray
Her light forever turned off
Over a hundred years ago
As the universe now turns
Itself into an arctic cold
| Scheme | AXABB XXXX CXXX CX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
| Metre | 11 1101 110111 0101 1010111 11101101 101010011 10010101 110100111 011101 1001101 0101011 10010101 101011 01011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 384 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on July 05, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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