Analysis of Dam Filling Up
Chief Speak-a-little-French 1980 (Calgary)
One would think of Aswan
Or the Three Gorges Dam
But here we are discussing
A dam a few metres wide
And a couple more metres long
And barely up to your waist
If you stood at the deepest part
The African rains
Were plentiful
This year
Even with the best rain
The dam doesn’t spill
It’s always a point to be made
This is a family dam
On the family property
Strange in a city…
But still pretty
Surrounded by grasses and reeds
Covered in water-lilies
The occasional heron
Stops by
Its slender grey neck –
A sight
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 101101 1111010 0101101 00101101 0101111 11110101 01001 0100 11 101011 0111 1101111 1101001 10100100 10010 1110 01011001 1001010 0010010 11 11011 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 494 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 5, 3, 3, 5, 2 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 58 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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