Analysis of There they will come knocking
As they call out,
wild calls in the darkness.
Screams from the void,
now are all I can hear.
They call and they wimper,
but to them I do beg.
"Spare me your horrors,
for me one last day."
So the breeze in the wind,
may come now once more,
and all of the darkness,
must wait at my door.
Though I cannot condone,
for what sins that I've done.
I made the darkness a promise,
that I never would run.
I wrote them all down,
in a little black book.
I left nothing to hide,
so come take a look.
I admit I'm a failure,
and I'll admit that I've lied.
I'll admit that I'm broken,
which is why I now cry.
I've done nothing but break,
when I fealt I was strong.
Most think life's easy,
but there wrong.
As the house again fades,
into the void; dissapears.
All of the pieces,
never were spared.
So now my times up,
and I open the door.
Though to my surprise,
comes the darkness no more.
(well, this was originally going to be a real tragedy, but I changed in my mind while writting as it felt just to dark.)
Scheme | XAXB BXXX XCAC XDAD XEFE XFDX XGXG XAXX XCXC X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 110010 1101 111111 11011 111111 11110 11111 101001 11111 011010 11111 111001 111111 11010010 111011 11111 001011 111011 11101 1011010 0101111 1011110 111111 111011 111111 11110 111 101011 01011 11010 1001 11111 011001 11101 101011 1110100010110110011101111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 959 |
Words | 202 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on February 04, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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