Analysis of Winds



You speak of global endangerment
Winds of climate change your view
Dust devil species endanger
That specious soul inside of you

You're riding on a howling fire
Icy wind doctrines force-feed the flame
Howling echoes of fragile pain
Seek refuge in a sacred rain

Prayers extinct whisper in voids
An echo nobody hears
Two empty shells without solution
Whisper into each other's fears

Hear the whisper, hopeless echo
Hear the haunting howl of fear
Pray to nobody in a vacuum
Complain to whom that no one hears?

God and goddess, each other's prayer
Vacuum effects drown the sound
He's the victim, you're the savior?
Or is it the other way around?

Prayers extinct scream into voids
An echo nobody hears
Two empty shells without solution
Scream into each other's fears

I saw it on the news last night
Coupled bodies, souls expired
House flood, tornado vacuum
Caused a fatal electrical fire

Twister is soft as angel breath now
Raging river merely a creek
Fire gentle as an angel's eyelash
Fluttering warm against my cheek

There now remain no empty voids
Or any echo one may catch
Just my water, my fire, and I
And our wind in the escape hatch

© John Kennan 2013


Scheme xaba bxcc dEFg xxhe xibi dEFg xxhb xjxj dkxk f
Poetic Form
Metre 111100100 1110111 11010010 11010111 110101010 101101101 10101101 11000101 1011001 11011 110101010 10011101 10101010 1010111 1110010 01111111 10101101 1001101 10101010 111010101 1011011 11011 110101010 1011101 11110111 1010101 110110 1010010010 101111011 10101001 10101111 10010111 11011101 11010111 111011001 010100011 110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,139
Words 204
Sentences 4
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 37
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 93
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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