Analysis of The cliff
The salt of the sea invades the brain with its dull smell
Legs dangling off the cliff
and the stars looking down.
just the waves on the beach,
a poet,
a speech.
it would be a shame to fall off,
with the stars looking down.
they would be so disappointed
if they could see it now.
| Scheme | ABCDEDFCGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0110101011111 1100101 001101 101101 010 01 11101111 101101 1111010 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 283 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
About this poem
This poem was written when i was very unstable, and was very depressed. it was talking about how i wanted to fall off a cliff, even if i never did.
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