Analysis of The Raindrops Turn
A ticket lay there waiting
untold riches bye and bye
The Powerball on Wednesday
buying freedom with its lies
All barriers seemed broken through
the world at your command
Perspective dying, hopes run wild
control spun out of hand
The numbers tell the story
but the payoff tells the tale
Be careful what you wish for
—as the raindrops turn to hail
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2018)
| Scheme | XX AX XB XB AC XC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101110 0110101 010110 1010111 11001101 011101 01010111 011111 0101010 101101 1101111 101111 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 388 |
| Words | 66 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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