Analysis of Into The Night
Into the forest
Out of the trees
Over the hill
Quixotic trapeze
Through the valley
Crossing the lake
Into the meadow
Time overtakes
A messenger calls
The cave now in sight
Daylight behind us,
—into the night
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July,2016)
| Scheme | XAXAXXXXXBXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010 1101 1001 01001 1010 1001 0101 110 01001 01101 1011 0101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 234 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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