Analysis of Insomnia



It is 2:00 A.M.

Blanketing the night ---
The quietness sleeps,
Catnapping trees, shiver with cold

Hundreds of sonnets ---
Cuddle, on the lips of silence,
The eyelids of every thought are heavy

The roads of the whole city ---
Have forty winks,
The lights, electrify with sleep

The hotels and restaurants ---
Are deserted,
Churches, mosques, temples look lonely

Everything and everybody, by now ---
Might have slept, a sound sleep
Aaah! Why I am still awake?


Scheme X XXX XXA AXB XXA XBX
Poetic Form
Metre 111 10001 01001 111011 10110 10101110 0111001110 0110110 1101 0101011 001010 1010 10110110 10010011 111011 1111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 441
Words 80
Sentences 4
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 58
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted on June 07, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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