Analysis of Portnoo
Nicola Anstice 1987 (Belfast)
Step inside the painting,
Pink and orange sky,
Grass tickles fingers,
Sand swallows toes.
Close your eyes and listen,
Waves ebb and flow.
Look left. Look right.
A reminder of your size.
Eyes dance across the island,
Sea twinkles and winks.
Errigal watches from above,
As clouds linger low.
Does this beach know me –
As much as I know it?
Does the ocean miss me?
I’ll forever miss it.
Another mental picture,
A final fresh breath.
What a gift to have seen heaven,
Before you’ve even left.
Scheme | XXXX ABXX XXXB CDCD XXAX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (30%) Quatrain (20%) |
Metre | 101010 10101 11010 1101 111010 1101 1111 0010111 1101010 11001 110101 11101 11111 111111 101011 101011 0101010 01011 10111110 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 476 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
The poem is about a beautiful beach on the West coast of Ireland in County Donegal.
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