Analysis of THE DARK AND LONELY NIGHT
In the dark and lonely night
Love is lost, as lovers fight,
Nothing dares to make a sound
Terror crawls across the ground;
Horrors from a long-forgotten time
Anxiety, pain, and bloodshed climb.
Dreadful things are done and said
By the loping, slinking, evil dead,
Love and warmth are both lost
To death and horror: holocaust;
The dead and lonely keep marching on
To the doleful sounds of the death march song.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEXX XXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 0010101 1111101 1011101 1010101 101010101 01001011 1011101 1011101 101111 1101010 010101101 1010110111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 467 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 3 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 192 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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In the dark and lonely night Love is lost, as lovers fight,
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Written on 1988
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 24, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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