Analysis of DREARY DAY
The day wanned to the loneliness of space.
It slept in a petty door of time,
With tired walls enclosing this crude dreary day,
To be all alone,
Never grasping the food of togetherness,
Only that of extreme, haunting loneliness.
By Theodore Pinnock
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111010011 110010111 110101011101 11101 10100110100 10110110100 11010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 249 |
Words | 51 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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