Analysis of Skipping Stones on Water
A pond
With the reflection of the physical world in it
Has two girls
By one side
Chatting about each other’s love affair
The vivacious 24-year-old
Flings her arm
A stone
Adroitly
Skips four or five times on the water
Each rippling circle spreads out, crosses each other
And finally breaks each other
The soft 18-year-old
Throws her arm too
A stone
Directly
goes into the heart of the pond
A rippling circle emerges
The stone lies at the bottom of the pond
While the circle spreads out to all four sides
In the reflection
The early rosy clouds are flaming
The blue sky
Scheme | axxxx bxCdeee bxCdaxax xxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01 1001010100101 111 111 1001110101 001011 101 01 010 111111010 1100101110110 01001110 0111 1011 01 010 10101101 010010010 0111010101 1010111111 00010 010101110 011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 578 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 7, 8, 3 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
About this poem
The poem, one of my love-themed writings liked and highly regarded by many readers, is from my poetry collection "Inspiration from Nature," published in 2021. It is about the people's outlook on love affairs.
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