Analysis of CHILD’S STORM
For Margaret Stanford
All was calm in the nocturn’s time,
The wind blew softly as a delicate child’s smile,
I heard the crickets whistle and
Saw the night as melancholy children in the blowing wind,
Then I heard a crack far away in the nocturnal sky,
And the sky turned a shade of madness,
Lightening scorned and abolished the calmness of the night,
Thunder scorched and crushed the soft wind,
All was mad and on fire with light,
The wind blew wildly like the raging tears of a child with a brutal smile.
The cricket’s whistling was demolished and silent,
Dreary children’s eyes frightened and faired seemed.
As wild animal’s hearts pulsating un the core of a child’s soft smile,
Then I heard a crack far away again,
A soft lightening was in the distanced like
The distant enchantment of a child’s smile of delicacy,
The thunder sounded tenderly as soft as crushed crickets whistling,
The wind was cool as the cool, softness of an angelic child smiling,
Nocturnal time was calm like the calmness of melancholic children,
Madness was seized in the night’s sky,
All in the night was quiet again,
As children in the dust of time.
July 23,1980
Theodore Arthur Pinnock
Scheme | X ABXCDXECEBXXBFXXGGXDFA DX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010 1110011 011101010011 11010100 10111001000101 11101101000101 001101110 10010010010101 10101011 111011011 011101010110110101 010101010010 1010110011 1110011010110111 1110110101 01100100101 010010101111000 0101010011111010 0111101101110110 0101111010101010 10110011 100111001 11000111 1 101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,232 |
Words | 227 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 22, 2 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 310 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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