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
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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