Analysis of Morning Rain
Answering The Past
I tell you what
you ask me why
Inside this ring
of time disguised
Two hundred reasons
passing go
Retracing steps
— of long ago
(Dreamsleep: March, 2024)
Make your bed with today
no one’s promised tomorrow
The present is visceral
its moment at hand
Repeating itself
in joy and in sorrow
The instant eternal
— forever Divine
(Dreamsleep: March, 2024)
Lost To Oneself
What do the years mean
when they come to an end
Their number a folly
if hearts cannot mend
A month or a decade
results but the same
‘With feeling abandoned
— a life spent in vain
(Dreamsleep: March, 2024)
The Moment Blessed
The future
can be avoided
the present cannot
The past but
a door prize
to what you have not
To live in
the moment’s
eternal refrain
A blessing
self given
— again and again
(Dreamsleep: March, 2024)
Calling Us Home
Drawn into the light
arms open wide
to hear
that song again
Which ushered
us here
replaying clear
— by Angels from within
(1st Book Of Prayers: March, 2024)
The grey winter
of dismal intention
recurs with a vengeance
— until you say NO
(Dreamsleep: March, 2024)
Scheme | x axbxxcxc D xcexfcex D f xgxgxxxh D x ixj axj kxh blm D x xxnm xnxk d ilxc D |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10001 1111 1111 0111 1101 11010 101 0101 1101 11 111101 111001 0101100 11011 01001 010010 010010 01001 11 111 11011 111111 110010 11101 011001 01101 110010 01101 11 0101 010 11010 01010 011 011 11111 110 010 01001 010 110 01001 11 1011 10101 1101 11 1101 110 11 0101 110101 11111 0110 110010 11010 01111 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 1,159 |
Words | 236 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 20 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 1, 8, 1, 1, 8, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1, 1, 4, 4, 1, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 58 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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