Analysis of Walking on Water



We left our sandals on the bank,
And stood on the water, the gray waves lapping our feet
The sky, a bed of clustering grains
And the old man fishing in the trawler
Walking on water
We looked to the horizon, with its pale triple moon
And remembered being in love
Trapped in a cave,
How the fiery wind caressed our stippled shoulders
Then, it was easy to feel love.
Now, we are nothing more than nomadic wise men
Traveling to this city, following that inscrutable star,
Someday, it will lead us to the garden


Scheme ABCDDEFGHFIJK
Poetic Form
Metre 111010101 01101001110101 010111001 0011100010 10110 1110010111101 00101001 1001 1010010110110 11110111 111101101011 1001110100101001 111111010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 494
Words 95
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 401
Words per stanza (avg) 95
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Submitted on October 15, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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