Analysis of Waiting In The Cold
Twilight,
Day surrendering
Light into
Submission,
Taking a knee
Before the night,
Entrusting its
Future
To a darkness
Unknown,
Waiting in the cold
—for dawn to return
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
| Scheme | AXXXBAXXXXXX B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1 10100 101 010 1001 0101 0101 10 1010 01 10001 11101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 202 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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