Analysis of A Perfect Night



A perfect night, I’d like to see,
A perfect one for you and me,
The stars, they shine the heavens bright,
A perfect everlasting light.

A perfect night, I’d like to hear,
A breeze that whispers summer’s near,
A bird, he sings a forest tune,
In hope that winter’s never soon.

Sylvan air, to smell this scent,
The fragrance of ten thousand trees,
To feel the streams that mountains sent,
Out to search for distant seas.

But something here is missing,
Something here’s not right,
The most important thing to me,
Has now just come to light.

To make this all the perfect night,
A girl far lovelier than I can write,
And though this poem is lovely, true,
No poem can match the beauty of you.


Scheme AABB XXCC DEDE XBAB BBFF
Poetic Form Quatrain  (80%)
Etheree  (35%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 00111111 00111101 01110101 0010101 00111111 01110101 01110101 01110101 1011111 01011101 11011101 1111101 1101110 10111 01010111 111111 11110011 01111111 011101101 1101101011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 675
Words 127
Sentences 5
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Written on 1985

Submitted by Warbard on September 24, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Warbard

Poet & Philosopher, Soldier & Scholar, Warrior & Writer, Husband & Historian, Father & Freemason. Since the early '80s, Warbard has been a pen name for Shelby Chandler who is a historian and has made a home for his wife and four daughters in the area of Fredericksburg, Virginia. more…

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