Analysis of A Gray Dawn
The gray dawn slaughters
the promise of Spring,
Winter’s desperate last goodbye
Its poisonous haze mocks
a sky forsaken,
the sun again denied
Its blanket lowers
in a shroud of judgment,
its verdict darkly stained
To deluge its exit
in torrents of thunder
—as light reflects in vain
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
| Scheme | AXX XXX AXX XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110 01011 101011 110011 01010 010101 11010 001110 110101 110110 010110 110101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 311 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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