Analysis of The Water Speaks to Me Today
Thomas M. Scott 1948 (United States)
"The Water Speaks to Me Today"
(An Early Morning Reflection Born at Aine's Place)
"The water speaks to me today, as an early morning zephyr slides gently across its surface. It whispers, ' What would you like to know?! What would you like to know?!' And then it said: ' The answers are always within. The answers are always within. Your soul taught me this, before I began to flow. What you ask me, you already know.' The water speaks to me, today, and tells me what I already know --- and tells me, it does, what I already know. That days flow from streams of everlasting awareness and that children are simply Life's dreams of Itself in three-dimensional form --- that worry is simply a design to help us learn how to shine, and become even more brighter than any three-dimensional sun --- that years are for learning and for fun.
The water spoke to me today and told me what my soul already knows and told me, the water did, what my soul already knows. ‘Selah’. ‘Selah’. ‘Selah’. "
Thomas M. Scott, Th. D. November 12, 2001
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Scheme | X X X X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011101 110100101111 01011101111010101100111011011111111111101110101101010110111111011011111111010101011101011110101011111101011111110100100110110111010101001110110001111111100110110110101001111110011 01011101011111010101101011110101111 1011111010 1 |
Characters | 1,093 |
Words | 203 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 130 |
Words per line (avg) | 37 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
About this poem
An Early Morning Reflection Born at Aine's Place
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Written on November 11, 2001
Submitted by TMScott on December 29, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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