Analysis of Waterfall Unknown
Palliative to hospice,
I jump from stone to stone
The river waits in silence,
—its waterfall unknown
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
Scheme | XA XA X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
Metre | 1000110 111111 0101010 11001 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 142 |
Words | 21 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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