Analysis of In The Dead Of Night
In the dead of night, moon-gazing,
The thought of the deep mountain affrighted,
Yet longings for the mountain village
At all other moments filled my heart.
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain Simple 4-line |
| Metre | 00111110 01101101 110101010 111010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 161 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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