Analysis of Greeting The Dawn
If I could start back over fresh,
a songwriter I’d be
The words inside the music,
in joyful harmony
If I could greet the dawn again,
I’d pick up the guitar
And strum my way into the night
—toward that distant star
(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111101 01011 0101010 010100 11110101 111001 01110101 011101 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 237 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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