Analysis of Pateras Potamos
Come to me Achelous
river without tears
Carry me distant
away from my fears
Direction is onward
Olympus bestows
Hermes in orbit
directing the flow
At home in your waters
whose currents surpass
Defining my history
from first to the last
Your torrent unbridled
the eye of the storm
I drift in your motion
—alive and reborn
(Dreamsleep: October, 2022)
| Scheme | AAXA XAXX AAXX XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 10011 10110 01111 010110 01001 10010 01001 110110 11001 0101100 11101 110010 01101 110110 01011 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 356 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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