Analysis of The Stranger
Tess Buchanan 1982 (Southampton, NY)
I woke in the rain,
With a pocket of pain, and a stranger asleep at my side.
With a grip on his pack, and the shirt on his back,
From a tour back in '75.
He stirred with the beat
Of the rain at his feet,
and he drank what remained of his pride.
He asked for my truth,
And who I was in my youth,
And, of course, when I answered... I lied.
I'm the Sun and the Rain.
I'm the course through your veins.
I'm the reason the Moon pulls the tide.
I'm the voice you can hear
when your conscience is clear.
I'm the artist who painted your sky.
Scheme | ABXX CCBDDB AXBXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001 101011001001111 101111001111 10110 11101 101111 011101111 11111 0111011 011111011 101001 101111 101001101 101111 111011 101011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 548 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
About this poem
An ethereal concerts end. Drawn experience and appreciation of a metaphorical take on addiction.
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