Analysis of The Rivers of life
Ashley Dabeepersadh 1987 (South Africa)
Perpetual rain, like a never-ending game.
Crimson is the colour, red all the same.
Splattering heavily over the already soaked remains...
Resembling little honey drops, but rain drops of pain, filling our rivers, and deep into our Veins...
Unique in its matter and strong is its force looping and chaining, all in its Course...
So, the river of life is the ultimate test, because for this strange river it takes nothing but your best...
Remembering always when the tide's start to slow, that without any warning or mention of go, the river of life again changes its flow, bending and breaking and taking all in its tow...
| Scheme | AAB B X X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010011010101 101011101 1100100010101 010010101111111010100101101 01011001111100101011 10101110100101111101110111 0100110111110110101101101011011011100100101011 |
| Characters | 628 |
| Words | 119 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 69 |
| Words per line (avg) | 15 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Written on July 01, 2022
Submitted by ashdabee4 on October 07, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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