Analysis of The Rhythm of the Night
They danced to the tune
Of the needle and the spoon
They turned the volume up
And put drink in their cup
They laughed and they danced
Dillusional and tranced
As they moved to the rhythm of the night
In the distance sang a breeze
All over through the trees
But nothing could be heard
Not a single spoken word
They could not even tell
Just how low they fell
As they moved to the rhythm of the night
The song started to skip
As they started to trip
They started to expire
As they went through the wire
They gave it all away
For one last dance today
As they fell to the rhythm of the night
| Scheme | aabbccD eeffggD hhxxiid |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 1010001 110101 011011 11011 101 1111010101 0010101 110101 110111 1010101 111101 11111 1111010101 011011 111011 110101 1111010 111101 111101 1111010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 565 |
| Words | 118 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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