Analysis of Storm brewing



Sinister the hot wind blew.

Hypocritical, warm it made no sound.

But the leaves knew, and whispered
together: the flowers crouch low,
pressing dulled heads in close confusion
to the ground. Occasionally, sullen
couriers of the clouds, big raindrops,
fall: slowly now, cautiously:

(They are the reconnaisance waiting
the time to strike: waiting til the
blustering wind shall give command.
When all the forces have been mustered,
then
the final word, the lull,
the dark,
and the storm will break.


Scheme X X AXBBXX XXXAXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1000111 010011111 1011010 01001011 101101010 1010100010 10010111 1101100 110110 01111010 10011101 110101110 1 010101 01 00111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 479
Words 80
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 6, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 99
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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