Analysis of Death and the Night
The black rubbers bawled,
Smoke strangulates the night.
That angry boom,
That brought the darkness
To its feet,
Surpassed the rubbers’ howl.
A body winged
And grounded viciously.
Lights out.
The night silently loses its breath.
As the black mist rise,
The darkness became sightless.
The stench of the occurrence
Changes nature’s aroma.
Then the flickering and flashing lights
Restores the night’s vision.
The weeping vehicles give the gloom a voice,
As I urge the sun to shine.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKDLMNOPQ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01101 1101 1101 11010 111 010101 0101 010100 11 011001011 10111 010011 0110010 1010010 101000101 010110 01010010101 1110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 468 |
| Words | 78 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 18 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 383 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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