Analysis of Billow Tide, Ebb Tide

Alan S Jeeves 1951 (Lancashire)



Herculean waves pound the frail sea shore
Smashing, crashing against a rock-bound bight.
Seagull songs drown in a fierce deafing roar;
Thunderous vast swells of a wondrous height
Towering and exploding overhead,
Mercilessly and ruthlessly, cruel
Then,collapsing randomly, gone, dispread,
Retreating homeward to Neptune's great pool.

But then the reposing, saline ebb tide
(Its tempestuous fury set aside)
Abdicates silently, bereft of word,
Leaving the bounty, the wild ocean yields
Discarded are jumbly flotsam filled fields
And a seagull chorus can, bis, be heard.


Scheme ABABXXBX CCDEED
Poetic Form
Metre 0100110111 1010010111 11100111 1001110101 1000010101 1000010010 110011 010101111 11010111 110010101 101000111 1001001101 010111011 001101111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 554
Words 85
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 231
Words per stanza (avg) 42

About this poem

A 1995 sonnet.

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Submitted by AlanSJeeves on July 18, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Alan S Jeeves

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