Analysis of Where do the homeless go when it rains?
An Allegory For Pain 2007 (Jamaica)
Where do the homeless go when it rains?
Do they hide under the shade of a mango tree
Hoping none of the hard fruit wiggles free?
Do they hide in the doorway
of a trusted shop
Ignoring the judging eyes
And praying soon for the rain to stop
Do they go to a shelter or Hide at a cliffs edge?
In a car they own or under a bench
I wonder things like these sometimes
As I sit gazing at the sky
From my bus window
As i pass them by.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101111 111100110101 101101111 111001 10101 0100101 010110111 1111010111011 0011111001 11011101 11110101 11110 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 430 |
| Words | 99 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 331 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
About this poem
Just a poem i made up while watching the rain
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