Analysis of Day Into Night
Trains are romantic,
airplanes are not
The prepared speech pedantic,
‘a song lyric caught’
Your eyes have to choose
between vision and sight
Or your spirit transforms
—changing day into night
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2018)
| Scheme | AB AB XC XC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010 1011 0011010 01101 11111 011001 111001 101011 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 236 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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