Analysis of The Drought
Abbots of darkness
bishops of pain
Cloistered in dogma
praying for rain
Thunderous chanting
tempest above
Damning false prophets
blessing a dove
Grace comes a hailstorm
Coventry’s shame
Lost in its downpour
thirst to remain
Warning blasphemers
in skies that portend
Ordained and self-serving
the drought never ends
(The New Room: September, 2023)
| Scheme | ABXB CDXD XXXB AXCX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 1011 10010 1011 10010 1001 10110 1001 1101 11 10110 1101 101 01101 010110 01101 011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 363 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 58 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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