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
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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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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