Analysis of My River Nile
This river so momentously deep that
it bares the tide of a past not yet forgotten
Slave workers on fields of cotton
My River Nile flows like tear drops on a
cold winter night.
| Scheme | X A A X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101111 110110111010 11011110 1101111110 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 179 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 28 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
About this poem
A tribute to my heritage.
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