Analysis of Its Tears
Softly,
I leave you
Within the falling
rain
And take my leave,
the storms reprieve
Its tears,
—to wash the pain
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
| Scheme | AX XB CC XB A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10 111 01010 1 0111 0101 11 1101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 155 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 24 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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