Analysis of Day Turns To Night
A new century waits as the minutes
progress
into hours of vestibular begotten memory
My thoughts being counted although I
resist,
my feelings in service to what’s left behind
The sun and the moon trade in bartered
romance,
each jilting the other as day turns to night
Another year is recorded in the serpentine
past,
what’s seen a mirage—what’s measured retained
(The New Room: March, 2021)
| Scheme | XXX XXX XXX XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0110011010 1 011011010100 11101011 01 11001010101 010011010 01 1101011111 010110100010 1 0100101001 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 391 |
| Words | 66 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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