Analysis of Rain
Amanda Shipman 1999 (Sacramento)
Now it comes in soft gray
Flakes that float
Down to the scorched earth.
Now it comes in waves
Rushing and sloshing down
The blackened hill.
Now it comes in gold
Tinkling, clinking down
Onto the cold linoleum
On the carpet
On the concrete
On the tile
Will the rain never cease?
Scheme | XXX XAX XAX XXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011 111 11011 11101 100101 0101 11101 10011 10010100 1010 1001 101 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 370 |
Words | 58 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem amid the aftermath of the Uvalde school shooting and the increasing ubiquity of fire and flood season in California.
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Written on May 27, 2022
Submitted by onekara99 on May 27, 2022
Modified on April 25, 2023
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