Analysis of Mourning in the Morning
Let your planet of fire
sink in sleep.
Nightingales whisper
a lullaby of slumber.
Flowers rest their silky heads
on a pillow of shadows.
Let your light lie light
in wait —
Cloak yourself in moonlight,
hide in the gleam on the tips of waves,
the glint of sandy shores.
Find the soft in the dark,
but when come day,
pierce the night
with your swords of light
and vanquish its weeping shadows
in mourning.
Scheme | AX AA XB CX CXX XXCCBX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110110 101 110 010110 1011101 101011 11111 01 10101 100110111 011101 101001 1111 101 11111 0101101 010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 411 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 6 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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