Analysis of Night Shift
The night shift in the hospital morgue
The clock on the wall strikes midnight
And also strikes a chill
Not much to do
Just walk back and forth down the halls
Occasionally tapping lightly
A drum beat on the walls
Awaking something sinister
And one by one the lights down the hall
Go out with a spark
And within seconds
The whole floor is dark
The temperature drops as you run blindly
Hoping to find your office
To get your flashlight and try to find me
But it's to late
Because as you reach the door
I grab you and drag you down with me forevermore
Scheme | XXXXABAC XDXDBXBXXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01100101 0110111 010101 1111 11101101 010001010 011101 110100 011101101 11101 00110 01111 0100111110 1011110 111101111 1111 0111101 1110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 548 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 10 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 221 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Written on January 30, 2023
Submitted by njcou396 on January 30, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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