Analysis of Salutation to mother earth



Salutation to mother earth

Power of the seed unborn in native sun

Touch the earth with gentle hand

Feel its living soul

Place your palms on waters edge

Breath deep rejoice as one

Drop pebbles into still waters

That ripples out of time

Place bare feet into wet sand

Listen to the tide and smell the sea

from which all was born

Sit beneath an aged tree listen to its tales

Watch leaves dance on breeze in a spiral rhyme

Walk a path of life on the moistened moss

Up to a mountains peak

Then sit relax and breathe

Watch until the sun goes down and stars begin to shine                        

Then you will begin to know what is real and not


Scheme X A B X X A X C B X X X C X X X X X
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 10101110101 1011101 11101 1111101 110111 11001110 110111 1110111 101010101 11111 10111110111 1111100101 1011110101 110101 110101 1010111010111 111011111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 660
Words 143
Sentences 1
Stanzas 18
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 27
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by sunrasmoondog on June 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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