Analysis of Port adrift
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
I can't get to you
The port no longer exists
You are my ghost now
I touch your memory
But no rope can hold you down
I float aimlessly
I am free but sometimes I face you
Unknowingly
It terrifies me
Stranger the unstrange
Where will you land
Who is your love
My port adrift
| Scheme | ABCDEDADDFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 0111001 11111 111100 1111111 11100 111101111 0100 1101 1001 1111 1111 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 271 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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