Analysis of A Night Song



Just as the year might come to end tonight
The total world may also come to die;
Across the heavens moon shall shed no light
On one last look of unbelieving eye.

The world has multitudes of wondrous things
We miss from snow illumed by moon and stars
That glimmer, sparkle as do diamond rings
To reddish burn of ruby planet Mars.

It seems we're never ready or have time,
The future comes and goes and full of quirks;
Instead of loving me commit to crime,
Within our hearts and souls the devil lurks.
 Before we ever know it, lifetime ends;
 Our many chances gone and dead our friends.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEFGG
Poetic Form Shakespearean sonnet 
Metre 1101111101 0101110111 0101011111 111110101 011101101 111111101 1101011101 1101110101 1111010111 0101010111 0111010111 01101010101 011101111 101010101101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 570
Words 109
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 154
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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