Analysis of Euphrates
A grain of sand with no view of the sea
Only a distant smell of brine
And a long way crash of wave.
I sit on a bank near the old river mouth
Where ancient waters once ran,
Before all faith was drained,
Leaving only the turbulence of man.
They say there are less of us
Than stars in the sky
But that is a vision too far for me.
Perhaps a light up there twinkles
For each of our windows.
Then again I may just be dreaming from
The edges where fish and currents used to play.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111101 10010111 0011111 11101101101 1101011 011111 1010010011 1111111 11001 1110101111 01011110 1111010 1011111101 01011010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 459 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 368 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 98 |
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Submitted on November 23, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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