Analysis of Just about midnight
The clock stricks out
hours gone, leave behind
long silence, long dark
a few left over regrets and questions
that linger behind every shadow
The cat meows, she's hungry
its the only time she ever speaks to me
But then I smile,
well at least someone does,
speak to me I mean
And that most count for something...
doesn't it?
Scheme | ABCDEFFGHIJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111 101101 11011 0111001010 110011001 011110 10101110111 1111 11111 11111 0111110 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 311 |
Words | 60 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 252 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on March 09, 2017
Modified on March 05, 2023
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