Analysis of Waterfall
Lay me down in the ocean
let the water cure it all
I hope your life is a calm, pure river
not just like mine—a steep waterfall
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain Simple 4-line |
| Metre | 1110010 1010111 1111101110 11110110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 128 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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