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 |
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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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