Analysis of The Weather of the Mind
B.C. Byron 1982 (Idaho)
I saw a foggy figure
That was swimming in the wind.
The air was pushing back on him
And ripping at the skin.
So bent beneath the heavy rain
That hammered on his thought,
He'd lost himself in storminess
And shiny days forgot.
He was digging through the darkness
In that chunky soup of night,
And crawling on two legs
To a distant muddy light.
But that glow was barely trying,
And it's seeker nearly blind,
Light was soon to be digested
By the weather of his mind.
Then coat was thrown out in the wind,
He gathered up the night,
Embraced it like an only friend
And held it to him tight.
He gave himself to burning cold.
He drank up all the rain.
His clothing sagged with sorrow,
But no longer soaked in pain.
Sometimes giving in becomes
The only path that's sane,
And a hardship is much harder
If we treat it like a chain.
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Metre | 1101010 1110001 01110111 010101 11010101 110111 11010100 010101 11101010 0110111 010111 1010101 11111010 0110101 1111110 1010111 11111001 110101 01111101 011111 11011101 111101 1101110 1110101 0110001 010111 00101110 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 820 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 642 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 158 |
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