Analysis of Thunder—Never Rain
Logic will never explain the Spirit,
its reasoning is vain
Metaphysics not transcendence,
all thunder—never rain
Ontology dismissing love,
a life of death and pain
Lusting for what we’ll never have,
—hating what we can’t explain
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
| Scheme | XA XA XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011001010 110011 0101010 110101 01000101 011101 10111101 1011101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 271 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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