Analysis of The Promise of Night and Day
Heavens fight o'er night and day,
Darkness creeps like shadows from a distant pain.
Sun shows one last ray,
Setting all afire so mundane.
Thunder promises water from where it lay,
All is separated from its grain.
Stars peer shyly from the spray,
Illuminating reality from the claim.
Hope is given after you pay,
For the wickedness of your sane.
Light of another day,
Is given to the one who pane.
| Scheme | ABAB ABAX ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 10110101 1011110101 11111 10101101 10100101111 11100111 1110101 010010101 11101011 10100111 110101 11010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 385 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on January 24, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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