Analysis of The Blackest Sea
Buried in the sand of ill regret,
a rifle washes free
Remembrance of a time when darkness coiled,
a snake of Russian greed
Its chambers empty, sights removed,
it could not, would not, fire
Perdition’s tide reclaiming fast
—its shame into the mire
(Warsaw: March, 2022)
| Scheme | XXXXXXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100011101 010101 0101011101 011101 11010101 1111110 110101 110101 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 273 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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