Analysis of Never Waver
Adheesha Gunathilaka 2008 (kaluthara)
Never waver even if you escape
People live knowing about the world
Nobody knows this me
Not even of Sinhalese blood
I have two friends who eat one rice
I don't have too many desires
| Scheme | XX X X X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101101 101100101 1111 1101011 11111111 111110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 191 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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