Analysis of Dark Passage
The night is a den
of mixed horrors
A trap
where you sleep with the dead
Any light
that’s remiss or left vacant
A pathway
—to gravestones unread
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
Scheme | XX XA XX XA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101 1110 01 111101 101 1011110 01 1101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 186 |
Words | 32 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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