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
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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