Analysis of For The Pain You Will Bear
John Jessup Kennan 1953 (Pomona)
on the night
you were born,
it rained
not a torrential
downpour
as in a young widows
grief
but soft,
as the warm,
wet cheeks
on the faces
of angels
© John Kennan 2-14-86
written for Steven Benjamin Kennan, born 2-12-86
| Scheme | XAX XXXX XXX XX XA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 101 11 10010 10 100110 1 11 101 11 1010 110 110 10110100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 286 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 3, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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