Analysis of Evening After Rain
Dionicio Benavides 2001 (Nampa)
As it is,
I only ever feel so sane
in the quiet hours
of an evening after rain.
There is a stillness there,
in that gentle place.
Where time is generous,
and things move without haste.
In those naked moments,
I am vulnerable and open.
Like how I imagine my father was
before his illness took him.
The skies ,too, are like a deathbed;
where crashing thunder lay
to be well rested.
Much alike how
the sound of slamming doors in day
give way
to the quiet hour of an evening after rain.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 11010111 001010 1110101 110101 01101 111100 011011 011010 111000010 1110101101 0111011 0111101 110101 11110 1011 01110101 11 1010101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 488 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 376 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 93 |
About this poem
I, like many others, have not always known peace in my life and it is for this reason that I have come to especially appreciate the world around me after a heavy storm. For in those moments of contrast between presence and memory, it becomes easier to place one's own life in the wider context of things.
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