Analysis of Midnight in St Lucie



She listens to Dylan when she's struggling, though most think it's something from the
heroine-soaked 90s

Most of the time, she's graceful
about it, she waits
until the sun sinks far below
the horizon and decent people
are sleeping

It's just her, the crickets, and the soft,
forgiving light of the moon
Remnants of vodka exhaled in the sweet smoke of the day’s last cigarette…
maybe just one more

The glow of a forgotten light switch
casts a shadow that stretches further
than her courage can
and she breaks again interrupting
the sounds of natural evening existence

Un-returned messages bring thoughts
that she might not be alone tonight
Somewhere, hundreds of miles north, a kindred spirit courses through her veins

Please let her be okay
Let me feel okay


Scheme XX AXXAB XXXX XXXBX XXX CC
Poetic Form
Metre 1101101110011111010 10011 1101110 01111 01011101 001001010 110 110010001 0101101 10110010011101101 10111 011001011 10111010 10101 01101010 01110010010 10110011 111110101 1101110101010101 11011 1111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 775
Words 144
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 5, 4, 5, 3, 2
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 102
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Written on July 09, 2023

Submitted by darqjuliet on July 09, 2023

Modified by darqjuliet on July 09, 2023

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