Analysis of Mill River Walk
The sunlight rides on the back of water,
Playfully weaving and feathering itself
Around the next bend.
Pearls of light invite you to walk,
And listen to the forest singing.
It will idle at the next bend
At a loss for words,
Becoming a regretful shadow.
The wind will push it away, into the future,
Marrying the silence of the forest,
To a footnote of what it once was.
A sparkling constellation of
exclamation points,
Still dazzling the smiling child in me,
Swinging alone on an Oak tree
In the dingle of St James Ave.
Scheme | AXBXX BXXAXX XXCCX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101110 10010010001 01011 11101111 010101010 11101011 10111 01000101 011110101010 1000101010 10111111 0100101 0101 1100010101 10011111 00101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 531 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Sunday Morning Walk along a wooded river.
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