Analysis of Rivers
Jessikah Bailey 1988 (United States)
too many emotions
not strong enough to cope
the mourning of life as i know it
nobody to catch me when i fall
nobody around to stop my tears
needing, wanting intimacy
anything to take away my pain
one blink was all it took
for me to fall back into my dark hole
nothing to touch or feel
to know that i survived
just my tears and my fears
i can't bear this loneliness
i just want to be accepted
i just want to find me
nowhere to run or hide
these feelings i have inside
i guess i'll just let them flow
down the rivers from my eyes
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNFOOPQ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110010 110111 010111111 1111111 1011111 10101000 10110111 111111 1111101111 101111 111101 111011 1111100 11111010 111111 11111 1101101 1111111 1010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 509 |
| Words | 109 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 19 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 416 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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