Analysis of A Single Night
Edward Powys Mathers 1892 (Forest Hill, London) – 1939
Was one night,
And that a night
Without much sleep,
Enough to make me love
All the life long?
From the Japanese of the wife of the Mikado Sui-toka In (twelfth century).
Scheme | AAXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 0101 0111 011111 1011 10011011001010101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 166 |
Words | 33 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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