Analysis of Footprints
In my journey through the wide and silent land
that, like the sun, no bound or compass has,
nor any separate part, nor print of foot
save only mine behind me, I will see
no footprint twice except I turn my head,
look backward in the time I leave behind.
The land will not remember me, though now
we silently commune with each slow step.
But I leave a small impression on the land,
if only for a time and only then
upon mere surface. Thus I journey on
and care not that the land will soon forget.
What matters is that once I made my mark.
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Metre | 01101010101 1101111101 1101011111 1101011111 111011111 1100011101 0111010111 1100101111 11101010101 1101010101 0111011101 0111011101 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 525 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 7 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 209 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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