River
Lazy river,
In front of me,
What could your name be
A swirling current in front of me, Bubbles rise, a Manatee...
Dorsel fins
Passing by,
What caught my eye were Porpose, swiming by.
Fiddler crab's at my feet,
there movement, so descrete...
A big white bird, across the river,
A Heron's eye's
search the river...
The tide is high,
The tide is low;
It change's the way,
the river flow's...
A man stop's by, he sit's and shares,
It is the way, of those who care.
I ask this friend, sitting next to me,
the name of this river, infront of me?
He cocked his head and said my friend,
The Indian's call it,
The Pithlachascootee...
Roy I Rodger jr.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABBBCDDEEAXADXXCXXBBXXE A |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 618 |
Words | 121 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 23, 1 |
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