Analysis of "Sea Turtles"



The sea turtles are swimming.
They adore the ocean.
The sun is setting, the sky is dimming.
The sea turtles are swimming.
Do not liter, we don’t want the trash to be brimming,
Recycle for your sea turtle devotion.
The sea turtles are swimming.
They adore the ocean.


Scheme ABaAabAB
Poetic Form Triolet 
Metre 0110110 101010 0111001110 0110110 1110111011110 01011110010 0110110 101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 264
Words 48
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 207
Words per stanza (avg) 48
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Submitted on June 04, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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