Analysis of Within the Night
Within the Night
The darkness crows within my souls delight.
Hiding beneath blacken thoughts within the night.
Darken grass blends pathways to freshly dropped dew.
Skies colored in black in place of heavens blue.
Haunts of an eclipse surrounds the moon.
Beckons for a judgement, upon the coming doom.
Humankind destined to end within a flashing light.
As meteors, pummel the earth before my sight.
Red flaming flares descending in spectacular array.
While streaking of lights change a summer's night to day.
My heart gives way from delight to fear.
My soul tells me the end is coming near.
The gin escapes the bottle, in a rhapsody of ire.
As missiles flee the earth, igniting meteors on fire.
The earth has flexed all the power of its might.
Now we must wait and see if this is the end of nights.
Scheme | AAABB XXAA CCDD XXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101 0101011101 10011010101 1011111011 11001011101 111010101 101010010101 101011010101 110010010111 11010100010001 110111010111 111110111 1111011101 01010100010011 110101010100110 01111010111 1111011110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 781 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on July 05, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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