Analysis of the night lies like a dead man's violin



the night lies like a dead man's violin

on this street you feel like a hermit at the end

the rustling of leaves breaks what cannot be broken
and blue things that were supposed to happen in old age
pull on the sleeve
like a child with naked eyes

leaves behave like your hair at night

the poet walks into people's houses like Saint Nicholas
leaves the silence of extracted larynxes on the windowsills –
for those who get up at night to heat milk


Scheme X X XXXA X XAX
Poetic Form
Metre 0111011001 111111010101 010111110110 0111001110011 1101 1011101 10111111 010101101011100 101010101101 1111111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 449
Words 89
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 4, 1, 3
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 71
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted by Sviatoslav on March 28, 2023

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