Analysis of I have been thinking
I have been thinking...
I have been thinking of the difference between water
I have been thinkingI have been thinkingand the waves on it. Rising,
water's still water, falling back,
it is water, will you give me a hint
how to tell them apart?
Because someone has made up the word
'wave,' do I have to distinguish it
from water?
There is a Secret One inside us;
the planets in all the galaxies
pass through his hands like beads.
That is a string of beads one should look at with luminous eyes.
| Scheme | ABAXXX XXB XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110 11110101000110 1111111011110 10110101 1110111101 111101 01111101 111110101 110 110101011 010010100 111111 110111111111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 497 |
| Words | 95 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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