Analysis of A River Runs Through Me
A river runs through my veins,
It's all chained to my brain,
Flowing like a flame,
It's too hard to tame,
The river that runs through me.
A river flows through my heart,
Charged with ions that part,
Into the dark parts of this heart,
There's another spark,
In this river that runs through me.
A river runs through my arms,
Charged by a heart of charms,
Ringing bells in my brain of alarms,
As the blood feeds like a farm,
In this river that runs through me.
A river runs through my legs,
Bends, borrows, and begs,
The river rushes in waves,
My muscles fill in a rage,
From the river that runs through me.
A river runs through my head,
Poisoning my mind like lead,
Then washing away what was said,
And putting the past in its stead,
By the river that runs through me.
A river runs through my mind,
Washing away all time,
Everything ever designed,
Squeezed out like a lime,
From the river that runs through me.
A river rushes through me,
Like water waves at sea,
A river runs through me,
A river runs through everybody.
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Copyright Nicholas Robert Regan
Scheme | axbbc dddxC eeexC ffxxC ggggc hihiC cccc ax |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101111 111111 10101 11111 0101111 0101111 111011 01011111 10101 01101111 0101111 110111 101011101 1011101 01101111 0101111 11001 0101001 1101001 10101111 0101111 1001111 11001111 01001011 10101111 0101111 100111 101001 11101 10101111 0101011 110111 010111 01011100 1111 101001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,051 |
Words | 200 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on July 31, 2015
Modified on May 01, 2023
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