Analysis of A Darker Lady
November fog is choking
the village of light
houses devoured
in premature night;
the sun came out
like a fair-haired girl
and shrank the mist
to a golden curl;
now a darker lady
stalks ice-damp streets
freezing the bones
of all she greets;
even the boy racer
leaves his car
now he won’t
be going far
because all day
her misery lingers
a prickle in numb
toes and fingers
and a shiver
in the beaded trees
- as night plummets,
the deeper freeze;
few will be happy
to sense the ghost
who hates our
summer memory most
Scheme | XA XA XB XB CD XD EF XF XG XG EH XH CI EI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110 01011 10010 0011 0111 10111 0101 10101 101010 1111 1001 1111 100110 111 111 1101 0111 010010 0101 1010 0010 00101 1110 0101 11110 1101 1110 101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 487 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted on January 25, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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