Analysis of Dark On The Run



The night a gift,
though minus sleep

With dreams adr​ift,
and words to keep

Blankness woven,
connection spun

A poem born,
—dark on the run

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)


Scheme AB AB CC XC X
Poetic Form
Metre 0101 1101 1111 0111 110 0101 0101 1101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 171
Words 29
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 27
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 19, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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