Analysis of River
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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