Analysis of Safe Harbor
Leaving behind excuses,
the reasons close at hand
No longer distracted by the ism’s of truth,
or what protocol demands
Living outside the fences,
no longer looking in
The horizon waiting as my dreams set sail
—safe harbor there within
(Bryn Mawr College: February, 2020)
Scheme | XX XX XA XA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001010 010111 110010101011 111001 1011010 110100 00101011111 110101 11010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 266 |
Words | 45 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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