Analysis of Some Feel Rain
Some feel rain. Some feel the beetle startle
in its ghost-part when the bark
slips. Some feel musk. Asleep against
each other in the whiskey dark, scarcely there.
When it falls apart, some feel the moondark air
drop its motes to the patch-thick slopes of
snow. Tiny blinkings of ice from the oak,
a boot-beat that comes and goes, the line of prayer
you can follow from the dusking wind to the snowy owl
it carries. Some feel sunlight
well up in blood-vessels below the skin
and wish there had been less to lose.
Knowing how it could have been, pale maples
drowsing like a second sleep above our temperaments.
Do I imagine there is any place so safe it can’t be
snapped? Some feel the rivers shift,
blue veins through soil, as if the smokestacks were a long
dream of exhalation. The lynx lets its paws
skim the ground in snow and showers.
The wildflowers scatter in warm tints until
the second they are plucked. You can wait
to scrape the ankle-burrs, you can wait until Mercury
the early star underdraws the night and its blackest
districts. And wonder. Why others feel
through coal-thick night that deeply colored garnet
star. Why sparring and pins are all you have.
Why the earth cannot make its way towards you.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101010 0111101 11110101 11000101101 1110111011 111101111 110111101 01111010111 1110101110101 110111 1101100101 01111111 1011111110 1101010110100 110101110111111 1110101 11111101001 1101001111 10101010 011001101 010111111 11010111101100 01011010110 100101101 11111101010 1110011111 10110111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,216 |
Words | 225 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 27 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 965 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 218 |
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Written on 2010
Submitted by Drone232 on April 25, 2022
Modified on May 01, 2023
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