Analysis of Footprints
Rock me to sleep
with sea songs
sweet on your perfect lips.
Tell me about love,
but not from a distance.
Show me the outline
of our romance
marking the sands of time.
Amethyst skies
and the taste of your kiss
leave their footprints
forever on my heart.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKL |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 111 111011 11011 111010 1101 11001 100111 1001 001111 111 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 241 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 200 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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