Analysis of "down in"
You fall on wintry screams,
believable again to dreams,
reaching inside your criminal hands,
thrills of your insatiable white wintry water.
Fall on wintry scenes,
unbelievable it may seem,
goals to be outwardly you,
onto the water,
falling inside,
rushing screaming,
impossible,
to see far,
far off now,
fall in down,
to the end...
Float to the bottom,
you will see it too,
in the white wintry water,
of midnight to hear her cries,
your love to be in the haze,
of the white wintry water,
as you wonder,
more is the reason why,
as you drink it now,
unbelievable as it seems,
drink it down,
drink the white wintry water.
Scheme | AAXB XXCBXXXXDEX XCBXXBBXDAEB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 01000111 100111001 111010011010 11101 0100111 1111001 10010 1001 1010 0100 111 111 101 101 11010 11111 0011010 111101 1111001 1011010 1110 110101 11111 0100111 111 1011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 11, 12 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 160 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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