Analysis of Water Spell
Water flows, pearls fall
Silver from your body
Break and dull and drown
On the water's surface. The worthiest cling
A king's jewels at the neck's hollow.
You speak and I bow silly.
Words crunch like boots on snow
Dig their way into the spine.
You wrote of gypsies once and told me
Not to tell of your love of words and sky
and leaves. Gold on dark skin glimmering in
a memory.
The healing powers of water.
Holy, blessed, Sprinkled. I only hear tell
But my soul rises pulled like a breeze.
My body lingers, stills, turns to clay with
its day's dirt.
Powerless I watch the hissing steam rise
from this bath water font as your words fall
all around me.
Scheme | ABCDEBEFBGHBIJKLMNAB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (35%) |
Metre | 10111 101110 10101 10101001001 011010110 1101110 111111 1110101 111101011 1111111101 0111111000 0100 01010110 1011011011 111101101 1101011111 111 1001101011 1111011111 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 630 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 507 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 123 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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