Analysis of Twilight Devours
Darkness, tearing into the light,
talons that blind
Redemption, covered in blight,
the omen reminds
Chasing the last ray,
horizon diminished and gone
Words screaming goodbye,
as twilight devours your song
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)
Scheme | AX AX BX XX B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10100101 1011 0101001 01001 10011 01001001 1101 1101011 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 240 |
Words | 35 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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