Analysis of The Ocean



The waves are carrying me,
softest mattress there could be.


Scheme AA
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 0111001 1010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 59
Words 11
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 48
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Written on December 21, 2022

Submitted by michaelp.46977 on December 21, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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