Analysis of My World Within



How can you say you know me,
When you've only seen my skin,
And not the untamed world I hide,
That's growing deep within,
You haven't heard my ribs all creak,
Behind each plaited vine,
Or swum beneath the waterfall,
That cascades down my spine,
You've not been here for long enough,
To watch a new life start,
Or find the run-down castle,
Lying just inside my heart,
You haven't climbed the branches,
That are wrapped around each lung,
Swaying with the breezes,
That come dancing past my tongue,
Don't mark me with your footprints,
If you plan to leave too soon,
And only want to know me,
When my plants are all in bloom,
Because the birdsong might be pretty,
But it's not for you they sing,
And if you think my winter is too cold,

You don't deserve my spring.

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Scheme ABXBXCXCXDXDXEXEXXAXAFX F A
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111 1110111 0101111 110101 11011111 011101 1101010 101111 11111101 110111 1101110 1010111 1101010 1110111 101010 1110111 111111 1111111 0101111 1111101 01011110 1111111 0111110111 110111 1111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 784
Words 148
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 23, 1, 1
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 209
Words per stanza (avg) 49
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Submitted on July 21, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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