Analysis of Dark Night Day



Innocent Dreamer fear can only be imagined.

You have spooked yourself into despondency.

Deserter, your comfort is always Here.

Your revenge, your tears, your laughter,

Lay in the shadows of Perception.

You are Safe, Never forsaken, never unLoved.

Why do you go on, and on, and on

With waggish lunacy?

Is it boredom?

Or is it because the Hunger Game is too Sensational?

Has your Costume become too unbearable?

We laughed with mirth and amusement while We
designed it.

Have you forgotten insanity cannot be understood,

Only then will you remember Day while culled into the Play of Night.


Scheme X A X X X X X A X B B AX X X
Poetic Form
Metre 1001011101010 11101010100 100110111 10111110 10011010 111100101001 111110101 11100 1110 111010101110100 11010110100 1111001011 011 11010010010101 10111010111010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 704
Words 158
Sentences 17
Stanzas 14
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 33
Words per stanza (avg) 7

About this poem

Written at a time when despair was my daily friend. I lost my faith in religion, my safety net. I had to find a new way of thinking, feeling, and living.

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Written on October 15, 2010

Submitted by MandaJo on November 14, 2022

Modified by MandaJo on May 24, 2024

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Amanda East

I grew up in Utah. I have four kiddos. I am now in a healthy happy relationship. I am spiritual, but not religious. I love thinking deeply about the purpose of life. more…

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