Analysis of A Waterfall Unheard
I cast my dreams
into the current’s wake
—on the river of no return
And rode a wish
down the running stream
—toward a waterfall unheard
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
| Scheme | XXX XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 010101 10101101 0101 10101 0101001 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 185 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 46 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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