Analysis of Waiting For Rain
Identity,
Born from a kernel of inheritance
Planted deep within a furrow of pain
Growing in the light of new discovery
Reseeding itself
—waiting for the rain
(My Son Trystan & I: May, 2016)
| Scheme | AXBAXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0100 1101010100 1010101011 10001110100 101 10101 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 191 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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