Analysis of The Muse on vacation, all thoughts have gone slack
The lyrics unwritten,
the music off track
All time is unsettled,
the Devil has come
His melody tempting,
false promises run
Two days still without her,
the weekend what’s left
The oxygen dwindling,
I take shorter breaths
My will power fading,
all consciousness falls
The ending beginning,
my last beck and call
But as the dark silence,
takes over my life
A light passes through me,
the shadows contrite
Its warmth so familiar,
its rapture my hymn
Salvation back early,
my Laura—within
| Scheme | AX XX BA CX BX BX BX XX DX CX DX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010010 01011 111010 01011 110010 11001 111010 0101 0100100 11101 111010 11001 010010 11101 110110 11011 011011 0101 111010 11011 010110 11001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 489 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 11 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 22 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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