Analysis of Night gale
Shelbi Nicole Bennett 1990 (Lynchburg, VA)
Standing in this wind
Whipping from every direction
Howling with the tides
And it smells like salt and smoke
And all the places it's been
It humbles me
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10011 101100010 10101 0111101 0101011 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 151 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
I'm new to Cape Cod. And I didn't know what gale was when I moved here. I grew up in the southern part of Virginia in a valley of the Blue Ridge. I've never known winds like these.
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