The ironic parts in the text are sentences that contradict itself such as the “saddest city lane” or the “time was neither wrong nor right.” For a city lane, it is usually going to be exciting and bustling with energy yet with the speaker, all he sees is something empty. The ironic relationship of this line, is similar to how the speaker is with the Night. The narrator is seeing the night as depressing, lonely, and isolated while other people may accompany the night with energetic, lively, and exciting. The larger difference that separates him from the others is the fact that the narrator, despite him being lonely, gets comfort that he is at least with someone, aka, the Night. When defined, time is “the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.” Upon analyzing the line “time was neither wrong nor right,” it is ironic that the speaker is seeing this “indefinite progress” as something that is unknown and