Analysis of Serenity



Gently on the waters surface, the dark of dusk does fall.
 To the gods who never praised it, the dauntless ocean calls.


Scheme AB
Poetic Form
Metre 10101010011111 1011101101101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 119
Words 23
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 47
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 93
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on September 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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