Analysis of Loire
To endear me to you
You need say nothing
To make me captive to
Your Muddy Banks
Wet with Autumn's touch
To see beyond the grey
Towers, laden with
Tile, brick and mortar
Is a Song unto itself
That echoes over the river
Some days, when the
Sky is a marble slab
The rain harasses me
Every drop
A demoralizing word
But when my toes taste
Water-smoothed pebbles
Grass and fallen leaves
Greet my heels in passing
The marble cracks
Mountains of it fall
From the sky, embodying
All Ugliness, Tearing the
Earth, the Trees, the Water
Asunder
But whilst I walk
The wind parts my
Hair and it flies
Floating on the peace
Of your solemn, silent beauty
And death is a sigh
Life is a breath
When the earth beneath my feet sinks
Into your water
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111 11110 111101 1101 11101 110101 10101 11010 1011001 11010010 1110 110101 010101 1001 001001 11111 10110 10101 111010 0101 10111 1010100 1100100 101010 010 1111 0111 1011 10101 11101010 01101 1101 10101111 01110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 694 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on November 04, 2013
Modified on May 01, 2023
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