Analysis of Sea of Nightmares
The waves are like seas of clouds drifting upon us.
Wind that howls so deeply in the air.
Silence breaks me free of my nightmares.
I kiss them goodbye with a stare.
Scheme | ABCB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain Simple 4-line |
Metre | 011111110011 111110001 10111111 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 161 |
Words | 32 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on July 22, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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