Analysis of My Tears Form Rivers (1/13/88)
William Goresko 1951 (Philadelphia, PA) – 2008 (Willow Grove, PA)
My tears form rivers
That flood their banks
On their winding journey
To the sea. My grief
Is so bountiful it fills
The fields with blades
Of tall grass in which
I lose myself. My pain
Is that of the prisoner
Who has been lashed
And deeply scarred. Yet
In the depths of my being
I know that all this will
Pass like the winter storms
Leaving me born anew,
Soaring like the clouds
Across the clear spring sky.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110 1111 111010 10111 1110011 0111 11101 11111 1110100 1111 01011 0011110 111111 110101 101101 10101 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 391 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 17 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 323 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 79 |
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