Analysis of Reservior
Renee Willaway 1990 (Texas)
You’re my reservoir
Of all the things
I promised you
And couldn’t do
My little source of
Rotten hope
You overflow with
All we’ve had
To undergo
And all the shame of
Such an ineffective love
As mine
To run you dry
| Scheme | ABCCDEFGHDDIJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 1101 1101 011 11011 101 1101 111 101 01011 1100101 11 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 220 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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