Analysis of Invisible procession
The black rain keeps falling eternally,
day and night,
on the dusky path
called the PROMENADE OF THE POOR.
And the poor
- sometimes they might dreaming
of good weather,
at which they might be
even more successful than the rich.
In ther imagination, they might be
running with dogs, hunting death,
or perhaps dreaming
of that hot sun,
when the shadows of barns
leave only as much shelter
as the shadows
of their own graves.
Be as it may,
there is much more imagination
in the poor
than in the rich.
The more poor people there are
in the forest of shadows
melting with the deep darkness,
the more invisible
this promenade becomes
to the world.
The crows, swinging
in their homes up above,
seem to be discussing
about who that is
dragging along below them.
Leaving them behind
to swing and caw,
the invisible procession
keeps dragging on
towards the graveyard,
where the glow of the tear
of a newly arrived pauper
is reflected on some crosses,
but not on so many
that the graveyard,
long since sunk in the darkness,
would look populated.
But the invisible procession
shall do it soon enough.
Scheme | ABCDDEFAGAHEIJFKLMIDGNKOPQRESETUVWIXYZFTAYO1 I2 |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111100100 101 1011 1001101 001 011110 1110 11111 101010101 010010111 1011101 10110 1111 10111 1101110 101 1111 1111 11110010 001 1001 0111011 001011 1010110 010100 10101 101 0110 011101 111010 01111 1001011 10101 1101 00100010 1101 0101 101101 10100110 10101110 111110 101 1110010 11100 100100010 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,043 |
Words | 195 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 46 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 869 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 195 |
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Submitted on August 22, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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