Analysis of Desert



Loving you is like
when the desert reaches
up to kiss the crying
sky as it
rains.

And my god, have I
grown madly in love
with the feeling of
water running
down
my cheeks.


Scheme XXAXX XBBAXX
Poetic Form
Metre 10111 101010 111010 111 1 01111 11001 10101 1010 1 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 171
Words 37
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 6
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 67
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Written on 2016

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 04, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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