Analysis of torrential rain
Nick Beaumont 1998 (Ealing)
black and frilly, black abyssing me, me abiding and silently watching the blackness overtake you to become a tongue and cheek succubus drinking black coffee to insinuate black
the rain pours
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh
you murmur on sleeping pills
1 ½ Xs
when I Spy with my Big eye on your abstract expressionist intersecting potentially fresh upon dry self-harm marks, like wet on dry watercolour, smeared, carved deeply yet cutesily unthought-out like your doodles e. g. the penis-turns-into-cat or the stylised S scraped on desks
falling
the rain dances in diagonal direction
unloading like bullets
sounding Shhhhhhhhh
torrentially
you say
I feel very relax
your neck exposes a massive nebula of a mark, a grey-purple-black hickey, two of them like rips, slash slash, your predator sexualising your anxiety of its semi-permanence, patiently, long enough to leave this grey mark which doesn't go away today or tomorrow
you breathe
hhhhhh hhh hhhhhh hhh hhhhhh hhh hhhhhh
unsemantic
the word I finally remembered to say
drastic
drastic
drastic
you sound like you're skating over thin ice
because your voice creaks
and fissures appear in what you're saying
a cool facade running away before melting
a detached laugh
you disassemble our connection
in microseconds
and it feels
suspicious
(but I can't hear you anymore because of)
The rain which Unloads unbearably
torrentially
symphonically
thrashing us with a wall of noise
your bench outside is stuck
45°
where you sleepily light a cigarette
entering the wall of droplets
unsheltered
bathing in puddles with ruinable socks you giggle
Let's Go
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011110100100100101011010101110110101001 011 1 1101101 1 11111111101010001001001011111111111110111111101101010111011111 10 011000100010 010110 101 1 11 111001 1101001010010101101101111111110011010011101001001011111111010101101 11 1111111 1 01110001011 10 10 10 1111101011 01111 0100101110 010110010110 0011 101010010 01 011 010 1111101011 011010100 1 1 10110111 111111 1 111001001 10001110 1 10010111110 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,594 |
Words | 263 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 8, 1, 2, 1, 5, 19, 2 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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