Analysis of A Ranting
Why can’t you just listen?
Why can’t you just pause?
I hurt and I want to explode.
There’s nobody else here.
I’ve come just to you
To rant and release this hard load.
But you have your Gospel
And hurt once or twice
And think that you now have the cure.
This challenge is ugly
I burn in its fire,
A fire that you say makes me pure.
Don’t be smugly certain
It all goes away.
Look down…see my guts on the floor.
I wanted compassion.
I wanted a friend.
Not platitudes heard oft’ before.
But now comes a new thing
Do I see some tears
That trickle and moisten the cheek?
Yes, just what I needed
A listening heart
Who knows what it’s like to be weak.
Scheme | AXBXXBXXC XXCAXDAXD XXEXXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110 11111 11011101 1111 11111 11001111 111110 01111 01111101 110110 110110 010111111 111010 11101 11111101 110010 11001 1101101 111011 11111 11001001 111110 01001 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 665 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 164 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Written on April 27, 2015
Submitted by dougb.19255 on April 27, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on April 27, 2023
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