Analysis of sans roots
self nurtured by nature
maternal despair
age knew no father
thus limited, bare
found footing in mountains
sans roots, still I grow
beneath water's depths
I rise from below
explored & exploited
layers naked, unsealed
defined definitions
once feigned, now revealed
| Scheme | ABAB CDXD XECE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 110110 01001 11110 11001 110010 11111 01101 11101 0110 101001 01010 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 267 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Written on March 31, 2004
Submitted by RWHoyt on April 25, 2023
Modified on April 25, 2023
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