Analysis of Dry Land



Across the water is a land so dry,
if you take a blink, it will pass you by.
No boat nor plane can take you there,
but when you arrive, you have not a care.
It's covered with grass as green as Spring,
you are only allowed to own what you bring.
For possessions and power have little to do,
with what the land's purpose is with.
So what path you ask leads to this place,
it's the path adorned with God's loving grace.
For only faith takes you to this land,
come the day, you're walking in heaven,
holding God's hand.


Scheme AABBCCDEFFGHG
Poetic Form
Metre 0101010111 1110111111 11111111 1110111101 110111111 11100111111 101001011011 11011011 111111111 1010111101 110111111 101110010 1011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 524
Words 114
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 392
Words per stanza (avg) 102
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