Analysis of A Barren Place
There is no rain on the moon,
flowing rivers or blue seas.
A drab and colorless globe,
with not so much as a breeze.
There is no air there to breath,
no green trees or fields of snow.
A desolate desert, with
no chance life will ever show.
There is no diversity,
just dust wherever you look.
A boring, bleak, barren place,
that time long ago forsook.
And yet it looks beautiful,
hung in an ebony sky.
And when it melds with our hearts,
there's no need to question why.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111101 1010111 0101001 1111101 1111111 1111111 0100101 1111101 1110100 1101011 0101101 1110101 0111100 1011001 01111101 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 452 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on October 09, 2013
Modified on March 28, 2023
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