Analysis of River

Marabé 1978 (United States)



I am like a flowing river
Relentlessly running
Relentlessly moving
Relentlessly still
And this so many failed to comprehend
How can some judge the depth of me
The height of my tides
The direction of my flows
Just by gazing away at my banks
You have yet plunged in
You have yet swam in
You have yet dipped a toe
How can you fantasize knowing how I feel inside
Or how deep my water flows?


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Poetic Form
Metre 11101010 010010 010010 01001 011101101 11110111 01111 0010111 111001111 11110 11110 111101 111101011101 1111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 388
Words 77
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 311
Words per stanza (avg) 75
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Written on March 06, 2024

Submitted by marabeh33 on March 06, 2024

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