Analysis of Vigil
In the darkest
coldest night
when the moon
and stars
are eerie clear
suspended
in stillness
echoing off
the walls of solitude
the silence
of the coming answer
Scheme | XX XXX XXXX XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0010 101 101 01 1101 010 010 1001 01110 010 101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 164 |
Words | 34 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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