Analysis of The flood
The flood finally came,
To this wasteland of a town,
But somehow we are not drowned.
We simply stuck out our tongues
And drank.
Even the angry old man
With the winkles on his forehead
Like a map of where he’s been
Came out of his home
To see the water,
And mustered a smile.
The children asked him,
“Why’ve you been so cynical all these years?”
He replied
“I’ve been up, I’ve been down,
I picked up the sharp broken pieces of
My heart
In
My bare hands,
And glued it back together again.
I’ve smiled so much that my face wrinkled,
I’ve cried so much my eyes sag.
All for the
Possibility
That it would rain again.”
Slowly,
The oceans re-filled
The rivers started to flow.
I hadn’t seen a flower in years
But a tulip started to grow.
Some say it was our pure hope
That brought the water back.
Others think it was god.
But I think it’s simply a reward
For waiting
And fighting
And living through the pain of thirst.
Because we, we fought for that water
For that sound:
Drip
Drop
Drip
Drop.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011001 111101 111111 11011101 01 1001011 10101110 1011111 11111 11010 01001 01011 1111100111 101 111111 1110110101 11 0 111 011101001 111111110 1111111 110 0100 111101 10 01011 0101011 11101001 10101011 11111011 110101 101111 111110001 110 010 01010111 011111110 111 1 1 1 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,023 |
Words | 220 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 43 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 759 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 190 |
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