Analysis of BLACK RAIN
Black rain is falling
From a loathsome black sky,
Even birds hide atop trees
Terrified to try to fly.
Black rain and black snow
Both spread across the ground,
Turning daytime into night
Within a small luckless town.
Pollution fills our atmosphere
Diseases spread from black rain,
Washing away all our dreams
Replacing them with only pain.
Black rain burning like acid
When it lands upon your flesh,
Black rain choking your oesophagus
Stealing away your breath.
Children squealing in terror
Adults running away to hide,
Animals burrowing underground
When they cannot get back inside
Black snow follows black rain
Leaving the city a smoking mess,
Devastating animals and plants
Shrivelling trees and forests.
Whenever black rain starts to fall
The innocents start to die,
Women try to comfort children
As terrified babies start to cry.
THE END
© Copyright 2023 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | XABA XCXX XDXD XXBX XECE DXXX XAXA XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 101011 1011011 101111 11011 110101 101011 0101101 01011010 0101111 10011101 01011101 1110110 1110111 111011 100111 1010010 01100111 10010010 11101101 111011 100100101 10010001 11010 01011111 0100111 10111010 11010111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 913 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Black rain is falling From a loathsome black sky, Even birds hide atop trees Terrified to try to fly.
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