Analysis of City Is Crying



Drops of rain...
Fresh and sad
Like tears.
City is crying
His soul is dying
From the poison of pollution...
But we don't care,
We continue prosecution
Like a capital punishment
Of trees, air, and ourselves
"Stop!"
City is crying...


Scheme abcDdefeghiD
Poetic Form
Metre 111 101 11 10110 11110 10101010 1111 1010010 10100100 1110001 1 10110
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 220
Words 41
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 175
Words per stanza (avg) 40
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Submitted on August 08, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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