Analysis of An Impression
Lonely isolation in the dark of night,
Surrounding and soulless electric light.
A rainy chill soaking through to the bone,
Will that friendly voice come on the phone?
| Scheme | A A B B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001000111 0100100101 0101101101 111011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 169 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
About this poem
I intended to capture this specific moment and describe it so that others could experience it as a picture or a movie in words.
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Written on April 28, 2021
Submitted by cfox57 on October 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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