Analysis of In the Dark
As dark as the night
her thoughts gathered
As cold as the night
her heart grew
She was everything and yet,
she was nothing
To crave life,
was to yearn for death
In the dark of the night
her demons prowled
She did too
For she knew her demons
As dark as the night
she is too.
| Scheme | Ax ab xx xx aa bx Ab |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 0110 11101 011 111001 1110 111 11111 001101 0101 111 111010 11101 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 281 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
About this poem
Thoughts in the dark (pun intended).
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