Analysis of Skies fall
Mark Cloutier 1972 (Kaneohe)
Skies fall
And eyes rise in the morning
Dawn breaks the day open
To another future that is now
There is no end
So why are they waiting?
And what are they waiting for?
I spent my last dime
On a cup of penny royalties
Every heaven I climb
I come down breathless
And every time it happens
There is more of them
Who never understand
Its written but they never know
Because the books are bound
They look and never find them
And it's all free
Its all free
And I leave high and dry
With wave after wave behind
| Scheme | ABCDEBFGHGIJKLMNKOOPQ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 0110010 110110 101010111 1111 111110 0111101 11111 101110100 1001011 11110 01001110 11111 11001 11011101 010111 1101011 0111 111 011101 1110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 482 |
| Words | 101 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 21 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 399 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Written on May 08, 2015
Submitted by Markcloutier on September 24, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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