Analysis of What Darkness Brings
Twilight falls onto my
windowsill
Demon fire in full
retreat
The stars return
glowing embers that burn
In whose radiance
an Angel will sleep
Days grip is unchained,
the cantor sings while he prays
As the chorus cries out
“It’s unplugged”
The sun has now left
with my hopes not bereft
Only the night
—points to heaven above
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
| Scheme | XA AB CC XX BX XX DD XX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 1 101001 01 0101 101011 01100 11011 1111 0101111 101011 101 01111 111101 1001 111001 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 372 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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