Analysis of "rain"
Purple shadows call from above,
thou fall unto thee, face down flight,
sprinkle in thine eyes of beauty,
shimmers velvets sun darkness.
Thy silent senses embrace,
thou dripping cool shivers of lace,
in thy rivers of sound calling,
absorbed of thou soul searching.
For what thou art a rainbow,
in darkness of thy night streaming,
stark upon thy face thou entrance,
to seek thy shadow in thee.
From thy darkness thou rain on,
thine ears cry of truffle tears quite,
so accordingly brilliant thou,
thy faint hasten reflection
Scheme | XABX CCDD XDXB XAXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
Metre | 1011101 11101111 10011110 101110 1101001 11011011 01101110 0111110 111101 01011110 10111110 111101 1110111 11111011 10100101 1110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 506 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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