Analysis of Darkness Waits
She whispers in the night
to waiting dreamers
She whispers in the night
where tears have shed
She whispers in the night
to hearts abandoned
She whispers in the night
— and wakes the dead
(Ryszard & I: March, 2024)
Scheme | Ax Ab Ax Ab x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110001 11010 110001 1111 110001 11010 110001 0101 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 221 |
Words | 45 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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