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 |
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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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