Analysis of Midnight and Slumber



Midnight wraps
its sleepy voice
and sends me across
oceanic dreams
silently pulled
by the invisible tide
all is still
and calm
as though the sea
is made of blown
glass, I see
my tired face,
and soften a
laugh, while
the sudden breath
ruffles the black velvet
waters,
and the dream ripples
rhythmically,
and fades smoothly
into the colours
of midnight and
slumber;


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJIKLMNOPQIIARS
Poetic Form
Metre 11 1101 01101 0101 1001 1001001 111 01 1101 1111 111 1101 0100 11 0101 100110 10 00110 100 0110 0101 110 10
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 341
Words 64
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 23
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 294
Words per stanza (avg) 64
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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