Analysis of Desert II



He was a desert
and I was rain
but he decided he
liked the feeling of
sun on his skin better
than raindrops.


Scheme ABCDEF
Poetic Form
Metre 11010 0111 11101 10101 111110 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 108
Words 23
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 85
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Written on 2018

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 05, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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