Analysis of Good Night
Many ways to say good night.
Fireworks at a pier on the Fourth of July
spell it with red wheels and yellow spokes.
They fizz in the air, touch the water and quit.
Rockets make a trajectory of gold-and-blue
and then go out.
Railroad trains at night spell with a smokestack mushrooming a white pillar.
Steamboats turn a curve in the Mississippi crying a baritone that crosses lowland cottonfields to razorback hill.
It is easy to spell good night.
Many ways to spell good night.
Scheme | A XXXXX X X AA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011111 110110111 111110101 11001101001 101001001101 0111 11111101100110 11010001010010110111101 11101111 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 480 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 1, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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