Analysis of Water
Cecilia Marie Holland 1963 (Detroit)
Why do you tease and taunt me?
Come into shore and back out again?
Waves carrying stories and souls and untold dreams?
Surrounding me- very nobly, you of the Greatest of lakes?
Michigan's treasures-calm and dangerous ; peaceful and treacherous
sometimes bright and cheerful; sometimes cold and dark
I thank you for being a place where I can bring my happiest of days and the saddest ones I have ever lived to your shores
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011 101101101 110010010011 010110101101011 1001010100100100 01101001101 1111100111111100110010111101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 423 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem thinking about the beautiful, powerful Great Lakes.
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Written on July 01, 2020
Submitted by Ceci2you on December 28, 2021
Modified on April 12, 2023
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