Analysis of Until Night
The Genie-us crawled silently out of the old clock,
and climbed up the bookshelves at night
The Genie-us then read from the pages forbidden,
feeling shame with a lusty delight
The Genie-us returned as the sun came up,
crawling inside the tall clock in the hall
The old pendulum again swinging, the chimes reset
—until darkness anew comes to call
(Dreamsleep: April, 2020)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110011011 0110111 0101111010100 101101001 01010110111 1001011001 0110001100101 011001111 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 369 |
Words | 63 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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