Analysis of It's on us



Listening to sheet after sheet of the rain
As it slowly washes away the pain
The pride, the sorrows and the fears
It does all of this with our collective tears
No mere mortal alone
But all of our cultures intone
From the softest cricket song
To the delightful sound of a bong
The realization of right and wrong
The whys the what’s the who’s the where’s
From the salmon to the bears
Regardless of who really cares
We all stare intently at the moon,
The sun rises and the sun sets
And all the while we wove this net
So it is on us to maintain
What powers shall finally reign


Scheme AABCDDEFEBCCGHIAA
Poetic Form
Metre 10011101101 1110100101 01010001 111111100101 111001 111101001 1010101 100101101 010101101 01000101 1010101 01011101 111010101 01100011 01011111 11111101 11011001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 562
Words 112
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 456
Words per stanza (avg) 112
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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