Analysis of THE SKY'S TEARS
Sorrow engrosses the night,
Joy glitters the morning light
Life’s toils deepen by severe endurance
Bounty fruits cluster around the mother earth
Hailing downpours of the sky tears.
| Scheme | AABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 10101 1100101 1110101100 10110010101 1011011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 185 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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The poem talks about the downpours of rain.
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