Analysis of Night fall
The moon rests upon a warm cloud
but his pale face does shiver
How the ghost of coldness makes
this lonely night quiver
Possessed only by deep darkness
is the throne of tonight sky
Stars, how they struggle to shine
Though they fail, they still try
The haunting memories come to mind
What kind of thoughts strike back?
When the atmosphere becomes
This intense hour when the hammer
of your conscience pounds
It's maddening, isn't it?
that you alone hear the sounds
Sleepless eyes let the burden go
crying tears of bitter pain
Oh, dear clouds blanketing the moon
won't you as well rain?
Thus these torturing hours
eventually come to an end
Dawn peers through the clouds
as the sun tries to ascend
Scheme | X A X A X B X B X X X A C X C X D X D X E X E |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101011 1111110 1011101 110110 01101110 1011011 1111011 111111 010100111 111111 101001 101101010 11101 1100101 1101101 10110101 1011101 11110001 11111 1110010 010001111 11101 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 689 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 23 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 24 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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Submitted on January 20, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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