Analysis of The Night
The night I gave in to
reckless abandon
Was the night I embraced,
—what I’d never understand
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)
| Scheme | XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 011101 10010 101101 111001 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 136 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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