Analysis of What a doleful night it is



What a doleful night it is,
To be haunted by the vexed memories of the past,
To be ill of the crippling guilt; like a disease,
And to be drunked from regrets–that'll indelibly last,

Still got that hangover from the mistakes i did;
T'was the endless cycle of shame that would drown me forever,
Words that i kept silent; unable to be freed,
And still overly thinking–what if i acted sooner? 

Though everything right now seems to fall off in vain,
Fantasizing false reality to escape this abyss;
But, such delusions–merely futile–can't help loose this chain,
Truly, what a doleful night–it is.


Scheme ABXB XCXC DXDA
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 1010111 1110101100101 1111010011001 01111011001001 11110100111 1101010111111010 111110010111 01100101111010 11011111101 100110101101 11010101011111 101010111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 611
Words 116
Sentences 2
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 155
Words per stanza (avg) 34

About this poem

Contriteness over the first person's dilemma.

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Written on July 26, 2022

Submitted by Serge on July 26, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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