Analysis of The Cabin
On a dark deserted street,
On a damp drab night,
With distant dog's a'howling
Stood a cabin with a light.
Looking stranded, standing silent,
Comes a horrible, hounding train,
With a ripping, stripping, thoughtlessness,
Chilling feelings to insane.
Then slams the careless, fairless wind
Making a shutter shatter and scatter:
But barely budging, there intense,
Yet unlearned to this matter.
Patient, worried, waiting, watching,
A sigh forced from my heart:
If I could come another time
There'd never be a start.
No matter what may teasingly tempt
To scratch or scorch off my mind,
The little light and the cabin that night
Has woven to a permanent wind.
Scheme | ABCBDEFEGHFHCIJIKGBG |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1010101 10111 1101010 1010101 10101010 10100101 1010101 1010101 11010101 1001010010 11010101 111110 10101010 011111 11110101 110101 1101111 1111111 0101001011 110101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 633 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 518 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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