Analysis of Shared Night
Is it here then, a path for my two feet?
My grip is gone, it´s such a useless life.
Only in dreams I am allowed to meet,
in phantasy I do not have to strife.
Empty all day, with you as lacking drive,
a yearning grey, a gap that doesn´t heal,
no warming voice, no beauty you conceal.
I can´t find you, you´re staying out of sight.
Just when I sleep, your image soothes my feel.
You fill my eyes with the depths of the night.
| Scheme | ABABCDDEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1111011111 11111110101 1001110111 01111111 1011111101 0101011111 1101110101 111111110111 1111110111 1111101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 419 |
| Words | 86 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 317 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 86 |
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