Analysis of Stronger Winds
A dark cloud swept o’er me today,
and visited but couldn’t stay
It tried to blow my voice away,
but stronger winds then had their say
Poisoning rains lay overhead,
whose black veil lifts in mornings glow
Their invocation scoffed again
—by everything Mariah knows
(University Of Pennsylvania Hospital: April, 2020)
‘Thank You Drs. Torp, Thaler & Weinstein’
| Scheme | AA AA XX XX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 01111101 0100111 11111101 11011111 10011101 11110101 1010101 1100101 010010101010 1111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 360 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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