Analysis of A Rainbow, in Black and White



When I met you,
My heart skipped a beat.
When I met you,
The world exploded.
When I met you,
I realized, my whole life,
Had always been seen,
Felt,
In black and white.
But when our eyes first locked,
I saw the soft lilac of an evening sky,
And fireworks of gold.
A paint splattered canvas - that was our love.
When your lips first brushed mine,
I saw the gentle green of a forest,
I saw the flickering orange of a candle flame.
When your anger grew,
I saw the vivid red of blood, of lust -
a rose.
I saw the grey of the harsh winter that was you.
And when you left,
When we went our separate ways,
On our paths that remain tangled,
I saw the deepest blue of the ocean;
The loneliest blue in the world.
I saw the darkness of a night without stars.
And in a blinding flash of colors -
The yellow moon that stands alone,
The pulsating purple of a broken heart,
The warmest pink of a love worth loving,
And the blackest feather of the crow -
I saw the colors bleed back out
And I saw your face,
Hidden, in black and white.
Who knew a rainbow
Carried the loves of the world.
And at the end, no pot of gold,
But our story,
Crumpled,
Lay.


Scheme AbAcAdefghijklmnamoapqrstuvwxyz1 2 gztj3 r4
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 1111 11101 1111 01010 1111 110111 1111 1 0101 1110111 1101111101 0111 01101011101 111111 1101011010 1101001010101 11101 1101011111 01 110110110111 0111 11110101 110110110 1101011010 011001 11010101011 000101110 01011101 0101010101 0101101110 001010101 11010111 01111 100101 1101 1001101 01011111 11010 10 1
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,092
Words 228
Sentences 13
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 40
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 861
Words per stanza (avg) 228
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Submitted on August 11, 2017

Modified on April 01, 2023

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