Analysis of Waiting For The Haunted Rain



haunted rain
keeps pouring beneath
the cracks in the ground

still washing away
the sorrow and the pain

from the silent walls
inside your soul

suddenly became the thunder
and the lightening of
it all

while waiting for the haunted rain


Scheme AXX XA XX XXX A
Poetic Form
Metre 101 11001 01001 11001 010001 10101 0111 10001010 001001 11 11010101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 237
Words 45
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 2, 2, 3, 1
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 39
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Written on October 30, 2022

Submitted by ggolden9 on October 31, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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