Analysis of FOUNTAINS



A fountain needs it's gravity to do what fountains do.
Without its help that dripping thing would not happen to be true.
The water would simply drift away...droplet balloons away would fly. And render fountains everywhere, sculptures, odd and dry.


Scheme AAB
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 01011100111101 011111011110111 01011011010111010101010101
Characters 245
Words 41
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 66
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 198
Words per stanza (avg) 40

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Upon contemplating a fountain one Summer afternoon…

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Submitted on July 28, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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