Analysis of Words
Did you
Graft that language into those words
that I whispered so softly into the rain?
The rain was disturbing my window panes,
that were tightly shut like my eyes.
The rain,
then went beating against the shingles
on a distant roof
that sounded like my heart
inside its ribbed cage.
And my words were beaten back
and tattooed into us
In a painless moment.
Your words
beautiful
as the sunrise and the sunset.
offered
feelings as old as history.
They flowed over frontiers
and crossed the horizons
to reach me
as incandescent dunes
of sand and snow
blown and shaped by a mirthless breeze
that stole through
the cracks in the willing window panes
to tattoo into me
in painless moments .
| Scheme | ABCDXCXXXXXXX BXXXEXXEXXXADEX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 11100111 11101100101 0110101101 10101111 01 111001010 10101 110111 01111 0110101 001011 001010 11 100 101001 10 10111100 111001 010010 111 10101 1101 1011011 111 010010101 101011 01010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 657 |
| Words | 122 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13, 15 |
| Lines Amount | 28 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 276 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on July 21, 2017
Modified on March 05, 2023
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