Analysis of Crying in the rain.



I am the ghostly figure who stands on the edge of the dug out,
Beaten to pulp by the rain,
Faintly exposed by lightning and shaken by the roars of the thunder-strikes.
I am the one that is firmly hugged by the clothes that were once oversize.
With these roars humbling my screams and the storm hiding my fears,
I am the one crying in the rain.

I am the one who owns houses but not a home,
the one who leads a mob yet all so lone
Who else has this much belief in that which is dead?
Who else lays their pillows beneath the bed?
Mine is the face everyone thinks they saw flashes of smiles,
Because I am the one crying in the rain.

I am the one misjudged by nature,
For in my pain, all they see is bliss,
In my hate, love
and in my solitude, companionship.
How did my insecurities get so well concealed,
That they see me as a hero
When I am the one crying in the rain?


Scheme XAXXXA XXBBXA XXXXXXA
Poetic Form
Metre 1101010111011011 1011101 100111001010110101 11011110110110101 111100110011011 110110001 110111101101 0111011111 111110101111 1111100101 1101101111011 01110110001 110101110 101111111 0111 00110010 111010011101 11111010 1110110001
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 867
Words 193
Sentences 8
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 7
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 223
Words per stanza (avg) 59

About this poem

In September 2021 exactly a year after losing my brother, I penned this poem which is the first part of a collection that came to be known in my household as "The classic dirge"

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Written on August 18, 2021

Submitted by williamk.33157 on May 06, 2024

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William Kwami Kortse

William Kwami Kortse is a Ghanaian plumber and electrical contractor who has always been passionate about writing. He is the author of the novel; "The Woodcutter's Billionaire Son" and is the sole author of: "Poems from beneath the baobab". more…

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