Analysis of Sand and Sea
A light with bite that wounds the eye
is breaker borne. Ashore,
this bright morning burns
black holes into the retina:
sun spots that dot the dunes.
My vision sweeps, south to north,
a stretch of beach. Each wave,
which breaks then smooths to ripples,
retreating leaves its flotsam:
spume-laden seaweed and shells the sun
will bleach to blinding white in hours.
A swimmer bodysurfs to water's edge.
I sip my tonic, sponge my brow,
and, through tinted glass, confront
the terrace crowd of others, cowed,
like me, by youth, by sun, by sand and sea.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111101 110101 11101 11010100 111101 1101111 011111 1111110 0101110 11010101 111101010 01011101 11110111 0110101 01011101 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 531 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 427 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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