Analysis of White Lilies
My poetic well upt and gone dry
Been twenty years passing dark down,
Keep peeking, mud bucket in eye
As time echoes life, spirals sound;
Cobwebs like crocheted kerchiefs,
Baracade parades of insects pleasure
White lilies bloom brings promise of grief,
And I, just a poet, in well's measure...
Darn wooden splinters again, my foe!
As my bucket chimes with rope in tune;
I descry, this well, my grave, I know
Those white lilies will bloom again soon.
Scheme | ABACDEFEGHGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011011 11011011 11011001 11101101 110110 1011110 110111011 0110100110 11010111 111011101 11111111 111011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 437 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 352 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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