Analysis of The Water Now Ice
A spinner of poetry,
a weaver of prose
A seeker of truth,
or deceiver of both
Will verse be in conflict,
with chapter’s unrhymed
Can the feeling’s transfer,
is there likeness in kind
Will I always remember,
which prayer I must pray
Does the magic get lost,
if the wheat’s in the hay
Can I capture this moment,
be it virtue or vice
In my verse or a novel
—drawing water from ice
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
| Scheme | XX XX AA BX BC XC XD XD X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101100 01011 01011 1111 111010 1101 101001 111001 111010 11111 101011 101001 1110110 111011 0111010 101011 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 407 |
| Words | 77 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 27, 2017
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on August 19, 2019
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