Analysis of His eyes were the sea.



I was water,
flowing and excited,
thinking about the river from the top of the mountain.
I washed every black stone with my body,
and my heart was a swamp,
silent, calm, and quiet.
A passerby
looked at the swamp of my heart,
three steps away from loneliness,
drowned in temptations.
"Take a wrong turn, my heart is a swamp,"
I said.
He took one more step,
and I closed my eyes to let the river flow.
He took his third step,
and we both stood still,
staring at each other day and night.
My heart is a swamp,
and his eyes were the sea.


Scheme ABCDEFDGHIEJKLKMNED
Poetic Form
Metre 1110 100010 10010101011010 11100111110 011101 101010 0100 1101111 11011100 10010 101111101 11 11111 01111110101 11111 01111 101110101 11101 011001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 533
Words 122
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 406
Words per stanza (avg) 105
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Written on November 07, 2023

Submitted by aleahmad on May 29, 2023

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