Analysis of Cry in the night
Alone she wanders, her body an empty shell.
She screams endlessly.
Why can't they hear her pain?
Do they not want to hear
or is she simply not wanting to be heard.
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Tanka (40%) Cinquain (40%) |
| Metre | 011100101101 11100 111101 111111 11110110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 159 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on March 23, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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