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
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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Naomi Buote

Hi, I'm an ESL teacher, but hey, I don't matter....IT's the words. I love that you all like writing and look forward to reading your work and being inspired. I feel I'm not alone at this. I write a lot for my students to get them to write back. Here in Quebec, in French schools literature seems to get forgotten especially at primary and secondary levels...well who has time between all those French rules you have to teach! So in the ESL classroom, I try and introduce as much literature as I can. I try to get students to enjoy it. Then, I show them how it helps them to see the gray and a way past the end of their noses. A word by itself is a wonderful thing, as worthy to the fiddle one string but adorned with a sentence a word blossoms in sense inviting young hearts to sing... (check out more in poem Teaching more than just Words) more…

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