Analysis of Dusk Awaits
These are the nights when dusk awaits,
To touch me deep, to feel you here,
Where shadows grow and content waits,
These are the nights of my heart.
Those nights I wait and whisper still,
Under your sheeting rain,
Where the mirrors direct
What the memories reflect,
To the deepening side of my symphony,
It's the only thing I can feel in me.
These are the nights that grow me cold,
With winter's bite and dreams untold,
'Till darkness' fall with dusk I'll wait,
These are the nights of disgrace.
The nights that I hate under shadower's will,
Facing the reeling pain,
Melancholy infects,
And the rain falls direct,
On the darkening side of my symphony,
It's your silent scream that I feel in me.
Scheme | AXAX BCDDEE FFXX BCXDEE |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11011101 11111111 1110101 1101111 11110101 101101 101001 1010001 10100111100 1010111101 11011111 11010101 11011111 1101101 011111011 100101 10001 001101 10100111100 1110111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 695 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
About this poem
Remembering a dark corner.
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Written on March 08, 1995
Submitted by WitheringSurface on November 24, 2022
Modified by WitheringSurface on November 24, 2022
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