Analysis of Where the Rivers Weep
The ocean on your skin
Delivered me to sin
As stars betrothed to dreams
Do the eyes they're in
Elevate the streams
Transmogrify my faith
Take the sweet exposure
That the Philistine would waste
Bless me as a river
Does the land it cleaves
Fill my empty vessels
With your briny seas
I would know the depths,
The darkness cannot keep-
Us in its Purgatory,
Where the rivers weep.
| Scheme | AABABCDEDFGHIJKJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010111 010111 11111 10110 1001 111 101010 101011 111010 10111 111010 1111 11101 010101 101100 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 360 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 302 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
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Submitted on September 30, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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