Analysis of Friendship
E.S. Conway 1985 (United Kingdom)
Born amidst the shores
Of a calm and loving land
Lie the foundations of us all
Each person made of sand
In life we get a handful
A hundred thousand grains
A myriad of souls
Is all that they contain
Each and every grain
Held fast by grafted tears
a bond once so unique,
Replacing life long fears
But as the sand drys out,
From life's dead heat,
They slip slowly through your fingers,
And fall upon your feet
A grain of sand still there,
Is still not all the same,
As you grasp another handful
And repeat this all again
Scheme | XAXA BXXC CXXX XDXD XXBX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) Quatrain (40%) Tetractys (30%) |
Metre | 10101 1010101 10010111 110111 011101 010101 010011 111101 101001 111101 011101 010111 110111 1111 11101110 010111 011111 111101 1110101 0011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 498 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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