Analysis of Nocturnal Mask
The smoky structure of forgotten dreams,
buried in the breath of lost denial
Stealing from sleep what life rebukes
—disguising what the coming dawn reviles
(Dreamsleep: November, 2021)
| Scheme | AXXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101010101 1000111010 10111101 010101011 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 188 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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