Analysis of At Home in Darkness
The empty streets are home to me, a spouse
to deep darkness, that’s aware of my name.
From street to lane, from the bar to her house
I know the chill, the blind walls all the same.
And rightly so you’ll loath me with the blame
of hiding there. I did create this sham
I am not he, you like to think I am;
I gather loss, keep circling like a fish.
Now let me go, I won’t fit in with them,
I’ll pull you down, deserve to live like this.
| Scheme | ABABBCCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 0101111101 1110101111 1111101101 1101011101 0101111101 1101110111 1111111111 11011100101 1111111011 1111011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 441 |
| Words | 96 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 324 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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