Analysis of Water



When he asked me why I love
the rain,
the ocean
and the river so,
the only answer I had for him was that
even after all I’d been through, I was
never afraid to get back in the water.


Scheme ABCDEFG
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111 01 010 00101 01010111111 1010111111 10011110010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 184
Words 42
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 138
Words per stanza (avg) 40
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Written on 2018

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 04, 2022

Modified on April 22, 2023

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