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 |
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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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