Analysis of Waiting For Dawn
In a region divided,
on a hill far away
A last echo subsided
quiet ruling the fray
The soldiers asleep,
as fate waits for the dawn
New blood to be spilled,
ever right—ever wrong
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2017)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0010010 101101 0110010 101001 01001 111101 11111 101101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 216 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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