Analysis of Twenty-Third Floor
Sheltered in sleep
on the twenty-third floor
from which
a thud fills the air outside my door.
In the darkened night
in Niagara Falls
they say the knocker walks
in the Seneca halls.
They also say
when the rain drops
the knocker comes a thudding
with a banging chop.
Buried beneath the blankets
on my bed
thoughts of many
rush through my head.
Could it be the haunting dreams
that I think so much about
or is it the breath of my dread
that causes my fright to shout.
I lay in a room
where walls surround
in fear of the knockers thud
and his provoking sound.
While a mist from my window
shows through the one-way glass
the knocker thuds once more
filling my senses with angst and crass.
I slide further under my coverings
in the blackened night
for the fright that stirs
in the halls beyond heaven's light.
I dare not answer to his beckoning
thud
as my body may be all
but bones drenched blood.
On the twenty-third floor
I do hide
with the Holy Bible
I clutch next to my side.
The thud now stops
with the coming morning sun
my fear is now over
for the night is done.
As I pack my bags
and put on my sun blocker
I shall never to return
to the sound of the knocker.
Scheme | xAxa bcxc xdex xfxf xgfg xhih xjaj xbxb eixi Akxk dlml xmxa |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (92%) |
Metre | 1001 101011 11 011011111 00101 00101 11011 001001 1101 1011 01101 10101 1001010 111 1110 1111 1110101 1111101 11101111 1101111 11001 1101 011011 010101 1011110 110111 01111 101101101 1110101100 00101 10111 00101101 1111011100 1 1110111 1111 101011 111 101010 111111 0111 1010101 111110 10111 11111 0111110 1110101 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,133 |
Words | 229 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on July 05, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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