Analysis of River



Your wrathful current rushes
through the narrow gorge
and past boulders it brushes
where your destructive path is forged

People are swept by your rage
trapped in your undertow
where only death will assuage
and death, you will bestow

You continue through all this
until you plummet into a lake
so serene, so sound, it is bliss.
But clouds take you back, stormy and opaque

And the cycle will reprise
without any demise.


Scheme XXXX ABAB CDCD EE
Poetic Form
Metre 111010 10101 0110110 11010111 1011111 10110 1101101 011101 1010111 011100101 10111111 1111110001 0010101 011001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 404
Words 73
Sentences 2
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 85
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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